A confessional account of an ethnography about knowledge work

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-40

  Schultze, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confessional genre of representation; Ethnography; Evaluation criteria; Information; Knowledge creation; Objectivity; Practice; Reflexivity; Social science; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; RESEARCH; SECURITY OF DATA; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CONFESSIONAL GENRE OF REPRESENTATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVALUATION CRITERIA; KNOWLEDGE CREATION; OBJECTIVITY; PRACTICE; REFLEXIVITY; SUBJECTIVITY;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0013142476     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3250978     Document Type: Article

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