Crafting Rules: Context-Reflective Data Quality Problem Solving

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 93-119

  Lee, Yang W ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context reflective problem solving; Data quality; Data quality rules; Information quality; Problem solving; Reflection in action; Situated practice

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CONTEXT-REFLECTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING; DATA QUALITY; INFORMATION QUALITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1242265071     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2003.11045770     Document Type: Article

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