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Building on Davison and Martinsons’ concerns: a call for balance between contextual specificity and generality in IS research

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Sarker, S. Building on Davison and Martinsons’ concerns: a call for balance between contextual specificity and generality in IS research. J Inf Technol 31, 250–253 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41265-016-0003-9

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