Contextualized access to knowledge: Theoretical perspectives and a process-tracing study

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-239

  Mao, Ji Ye ^a,b   Benbasat, Izak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contextualized access; Explanation; Hypertext; Knowledge based systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346075076     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1998.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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