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Research Agenda for Studying Open Source II: View Through the Lens of Referent Discipline Theories

Fred Niederman, Ashley Davis, Martina E. Greiner, Donald E. Wynn, Paul T. York

Communications of the Association for Information Systems · 2006 · 23 citations · 84 references

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ComputingComputer ScienceInformation SystemsInformation Systems ManagementSoftware EngineeringSoftware DesignOpen-source Software DevelopmentResearch Agenda Setting

Abstract

In a companion paper [Niederman et al., 2006] we presented a multi-level research agenda for studying information systems using open source software. This paper examines open source in terms of MIS and referent discipline theories that are the base needed for rigorous study of the research agenda

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