CASE tools and organizational action

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 173-194

  King, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; CASE; Grounded theory; Information system development; Organizational context; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010854740     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.1996.tb00012.x     Document Type: Article

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