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Theoretically Speaking
The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1921
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/108338a0