How We Profess: The Ethical Systems Analyst

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 69-77

  Wood Harper, A T ^a   Corder, Steve ^b   Wood, J R G ^a   Watson, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICAL THEORY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0030108138     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/227234.227244     Document Type: Article

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