Applied Discipline

An applied discipline is an academic discipline whose focus is on practical tasks (with benefits and costs).

• AKA: Technical Discipline.
• Context:
  • It can be associated to a Theoretical Discipline.
  • It can support an Applied Practice.
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• Example(s):
  • Information Systems Discipline.
  • Engineering Discipline.
  • Nursing Discipline.
  • Marketing Discipline.
  • Medical Discipline.
  • Legal Discipline.
  • Human Resources Development Discipline.
  • Applied Data Mining Discipline.
  • Applied Computing Science Discipline.
  • Applied Statistics Discipline.
  • Applied Mathematics Discipline.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Basic Science Discipline, such as a Theoretical Physics Discipline.
  • a Professional Practice, such as a Legal Practice.
• See: Applied Research.

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References

• http://scholar.google.com/search?q=%22an+applied+discipline+such+as%22
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1999

• (Moody & Buist, 1999) ⇒ Daniel Moody, and Anne Buist. (1999). “Improving Links Between Information Systems Research and Practice - Lessons from the Medical Profession.” In: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Conference on Information Systems.
  • In an applied discipline, research should be relevant to the needs of practice and research outputs should ultimately contribute to the development of improved practices.

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