Information Systems Project in China: Action research and soft systems methodology

Human Systems Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-192

  Bell, Simon ^a   Coleman, Gilroy ^b   Guo, Jian Qiang ^c   Sewell, Martin ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c China International Engineering Consulting Corporation   (China)

^d Adept Systems ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; IS; Learning; Methodology; Participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041116324     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/hsm-2000-19305     Document Type: Article

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