Can the field of MIS be disciplined?
Communications of the ACM
MIS research directions: a survey of researchers' views
ACM SIGMIS Database
A review of MIS research and disciplinary development
Journal of Management Information Systems
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
One Man's View of Computer Science
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search
Communications of the ACM
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Scientific progress of management information systems
ACM SIGMIS Database
The journal communication system for MIS research
ACM SIGMIS Database
MIS research: a profile of leading journals and universities
ACM SIGMIS Database
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This study examines the characteristics of cross-fertilization of knowledge of MIS and its related disciplines. The examination is conducted from the perspective of two significantly different models of scientific development. These are the internalist model and the externalist model. Citation data is used to develop a cross-fertilization network of scientific disciplines. The patterns of knowledgesharing among the disciplines are studied. MIS and its reference disciplines are analyzed in terms of the degree to which they remain open to the ideas of other fields. Results indicate that the patterns of cross-fertilization vary greatly among these scientific fields. This suggests that no one model of scientific development serves to describe adequately MIS and its related disciplines. The status of MIS as a scientific discipline is discussed. The authors argue that the multifaceted nature of MIS should be re-conceptualized as progress from multiple directions.