A Philosophy of Information Technology and Systems (IT & S) as Tools: Tool Development Context, Associated Skills and the Global Technology Transfer (GTT) Process

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 185-197

  Bunker, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Culture; Globalisation; Information technology and systems; Philosophy; Technology transfer; Tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035598785     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011443406476     Document Type: Article

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