Emerging Issues in Interpretive Organizational Learning

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 49-62

  Hine, Michael J ^a   Gasen, Jean B ^a   Goul, Michael ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Interpretation; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039323863     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/264417.264434     Document Type: Article

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57. Michael J. Hine is an assistant professor of information systems at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has published numerous articles in the knowledge-based DSS area. His current research interests include knowledge-based organizational support systems, mental modeling, and the visual representation of cognitive constructs.