Information, technology and culture: An ethnography of information technology and modernist business organization

Technovation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-20

  Despres, Charles Jean Noel ^a  

^a IMD   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0039593655     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4972(95)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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