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Acknowledgements
Many individuals made contributions to this special issue. First, thanks to Richard Baskerville for seeing the importance of Heinz Klein's legacy and letting us to pursue this special issue with EJIS. Thanks go also to the editorial office of the EJIS for helping us to run the review process. Special thanks are due to the reviewers for the special issue many of whom are friends, students or scholars touched by Heinz's works. They include: Andrew Basden, Tony Bryant, Carole Brown, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Panos Constantinides, Nik Hassan, Jonas Hedman, Juhani Iivari, Henry Linger, Emmanuel Monod, Bjorn Niehaves, Duane Truex, Cathy Urquhart, Carina de Villiers and Fahri Yetim.
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Hirschheim, R., Lyytinen, K. & Myers, M. Special issue on the Kleinian approach to information system research – foreword. Eur J Inf Syst 20, 418–421 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2011.15
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