Paradoxes of participatory practices: The Janus role of the systems developer

Information and Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-24

  Howcroft, Debra ^a   Wilson, Melanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict; Contradiction; Critical management studies (CMS); End user; Janus; Paradox; Power; User participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037212664     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-7727(02)00023-4     Document Type: Article

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