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Title:
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WHO ARE WE? IDENTIFYING AND DEFINING THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS) DISCIPLINE BY A SET OF PRINCIPLES |
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Author(s):
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Deborah Bunker |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-83-0 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell |
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Year:
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2013 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Information systems (IS), identity, discipline, artifact, paradigm, information and communications technology (ICT) |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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293 |
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Last Page:
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296 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper seeks to develop some guiding principles which underpin how we might come to identify the IS discipline and define the IS artifact and paradigm. It is argued that as these principles define the IS artifact and paradigm from an informational perspective and that they decouple this definition from the physical attributes of information and communications technology (ICT) artifacts and the associated paradigm of Engineering. In this way, we are more effectively able to identify and differentiate who we are and what it is that we contribute within our discipline. |
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