Work-arounds and boundary crossing in a high tech optronics company: The role of co-operative workflow technologies

Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 435-455

  Hayes, Niall ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BOUNDARY CROSSING; COOPERATIVE WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHY; EXCEPTION HANDLING; INTERPRETIVE STUDY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0033686548     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008795025075     Document Type: Article

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