Can the field of MIS be disciplined?
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 32 (1), 48-60
- https://doi.org/10.1145/63238.63241
Abstract
Preoccupations about the present and future evolution of MIS as a scientific field seem to be gaining popularity among researchers. The authors contend that most models used by the investigators of the MIS field have been based on an inappropriate monistic view of science.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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