Drifting technologies and multi-purpose networks: The case of the Swedish cashcard

Information and Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 187-206

  Holmström, Jonny ^a   Stalder, Felix ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic cash; IT artifacts; IT infrastructure drift; Smartcards; Translation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012655161     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-7727(01)00004-5     Document Type: Article

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