Information systems teaching and research in West Australian universities

Authors

Janice Burn, Edith Cowan University
Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University
Chad Lin

Document Type

Book Chapter

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Management

RAS ID

5787

Comments

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) Available here

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.

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