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The decades from the 1990s to 2000s have seen long and vigorous debates over the perceived deepening alienation of the academic discipline of information systems from practice of and technical content of information systems.
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Osei-Bryson, KM., Ngwenyama, O. (2014). Introduction. In: Osei-Bryson, KM., Ngwenyama, O. (eds) Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 34. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9463-8_1
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