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Klein and Hirschheim (1991) predicted that the future of information systems (IS) research would
… belong to methodologies that are able to combine a high level of formal rationality with a sufficient level of communicative rationality under emancipatory conditions (p. 15).
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Brooke, C. (2016). Critical Perspectives on Information Systems: An Impression of the Research Landscape. In: Willcocks, L.P., Sauer, C., Lacity, M.C. (eds) Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29266-3_4
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