Balancing the local and the global in infrastructural information systems

Information Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 87-100

  Rolland, Knut H ^a   Monteiro, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Globalization; Improvisation; Information infrastructure; Standardization of global work practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036017132     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240290075020     Document Type: Article

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