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The MIS area: problems, challenges, and opportunities

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 14, Issue 1

Pages 7 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/1017702.1017705

Published: 01 September 1982 Publication History

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Management Information Systems has evolved as an area in which teaching and research is common. In order to consolidate advances made to date in this area and to meet new and significant challenges, a number of problems must be overcome. This paper identifies and discusses the problems, suggests methods for their solution, and concludes by looking toward future opportunities for the area.

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cover image ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems Volume 14, Issue 1

Information systems and its underlying disciplines: selected papers from the International Conference on Information Systems

Fall 1982

55 pages

ISSN:0095-0033

EISSN:1532-0936

DOI:10.1145/1017702

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