Ethnography and information systems development: Ethnography of, for and within IS development

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 531-540

  Beynon Davies, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Information systems development; Research methods

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ETHNOGRAPHY;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031211934     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0950-5849(97)00008-6     Document Type: Article

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