The field of Information Systems, it is argued, suffers from identity crisis and faces difficulties in achieving a disciplinary status (Galliers, 2006; Hassan, 2011). The IS research continues to be seen as lacking relevance and impact that negatively affects IS prospects for becoming a discipline. Key charges include the narrow research focus and a rigid application of research methods that co...

the aim of this study is to investigate iranian tefl graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 tefl graduates. gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was ado...

507 suggests that there must be some pathogens that affect both plants and animals. Indeed, one such example is the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which attacks both Homo sapiens and Arabidopsis. Perhaps more significant are the common conditions that arise when the immune system malfunctions. There are many known autoimmune diseases in humans, but plants also suffer from them. In lesion mim...

in spite of importance of it deployment, nowadays in many organizations we are witness of appearing problems related to dissatisfaction of business needs due to high investment in the field of it. the fervent debate concerning it productivity–or lack of such productivity- named productivity paradox persuade us to survey relationship between it–business alignment and business performance. the pu...