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Welcome! You have just now commenced your journey as a doctoral scholar in the discipline of your choice. We call this research discipline “Information Systems”. Information Systems is mostly concerned with the socio-technical systems comprising organisations and individuals that deploy information technology for business tasks. In a broader way, the Information Systems research discipline is concerned with examining Information Technology in use [127].
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Recker, J. (2012). Introduction. In: Scientific Research in Information Systems. Progress in IS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30048-6_1
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