Longitudinal Author Cocitation Mapping

Longitudinal Author Cocitation Mapping focuses on specific aspects of the decision support systems (DSS) history by means of an empirical assessment of the DSS literature over three consecutive time periods: 1969-1990, 1991- 2005, and 2006-2012.This includes:Patterns of social constructions (the intellectual structure and ) of the DSS field.Major schools of thoughts, Cumulative research tradition, Reference disciplines.On-going dynamic changes in the intellectual structure.Diffusion of ideas: From the reference disciplines to DSS research subspecialties, Within DSS research subspecialties.