The Stage Hypothesis and the S-Curve: Some Contradictory Evidence

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1977, Pages 254-259

  Lucas, Henry C ^a   Sutton, Jimmy A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

budgets; stage hypothesis; stage theories

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT - APPLICATIONS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0017480729     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/359461.359472     Document Type: Article

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