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Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson Ojelanki Ngwenyama Editors

Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking

Integrated Series in Information Systems Volume 34

Series editors Ramesh Sharda, Stillwater, USA Stefan Voß, Hamburg, Germany

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6157

Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson Ojelanki Ngwenyama Editors

Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking

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Editors Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson Department of Information Systems Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA USA

Ojelanki Ngwenyama Department of Information Systems Ryerson University Toronto, ON Canada

ISSN  1571-0270 ISSN  2197-7968  (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4614-9462-1 ISBN 978-1-4614-9463-8  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9463-8 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London

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Contents

1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson and Ojelanki Ngwenyama 2 Logical Foundations of Social Scienc