Stakeholders, soft systems and technology: Separation and mediation in the analysis of information system requirements

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-46

  Vidgen, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mediation; Requirements analysis; Soft systems methodology; Stakeholder analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142109544     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1997.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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