Learning dysfunctions in information systems development: Overcoming the social defenses with transitional objects

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 581-600

  Wastell, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IS development; Methodologies and models; Organizational learning; Social defenses; Stress and anxiety; Transitional objects; Transitional space

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEM (IS) DEVELOPMENT; METHODOLOGIES AND MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; SOCIAL DEFENSES; STRESS AND ANXIETY; TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS; TRANSITIONAL SPACE;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000606541     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249490     Document Type: Article

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