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What is meant by making a contribution to theory and practice?

Name: What is meant by making a contribution to theory and practice?
Start: 2015-10-02T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2015-10-02T13:00:00+00:00
Location: CA110 (SAC Room), Cairnes Building

October 2, 2015 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location: CA110 (SAC Room), Cairnes Building, NUI Galway Galway Ireland

Speaker(s): Trevor Clohessy

Affiliation: BIS Discipline

Organised by: Lero

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Trevor is a 4^th year PhD candidate with Lero and the BIS group

Preparatory reading:

David Avison and Julien Malaurent (2014) Is theory king?: questioning the theory fetish in information systems. Journal of Information Technology 29, 327–336. doi:10.1057/jit.2014.8 … published in JIT as part of a series of 6 other papers which continue the debate.

DD Bergh (2003) From the editors – Thinking strategically about contribution. Academy of Management Journal 46(2 ), 135-136. doi:10.5465/AMJ.2003.17481820

David A. Whetten (1989) What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution? Academy of Management Review 14(4), 490-495. doi:10.5465/AMR.1989.4308371.

Part of the IS research seminar series organised by Lero and the BIS Discipline