Document Type
Book Chapter
Faculty
Business and Law
School
Management
RAS ID
5787
Abstract
The authors of this chapter examine the current state of the development of information systems (IS) teaching and research within Western Australia (WA). A brief overview of the WA environment is followed by an exploration of teaching and research in the four main universities. This is examined against the framework for the study and, in particular, the impact of social processes (Ariav et al. 1987; Klein et al. 1991) and local contingencies (Culnan et al. 1993; Checkland and Holwell 1998), which are found to be of relevance to historical developments.
Comments
This book chapter was originally published as: Burn, J., Standing, C., & Lin, C. (2008). Information systems teaching and research in West Australian universities. In Gable, G., Gregor, S., Clarke, R., Ridley, G., & Smyth, R. The Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia. Canberra: ANU ePress. (pp.281-294) Original article available here