The evolving object of software development

Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 401-435

  Adler, Paul S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Cultural historical activity theory; Inter dependence; Marxism; Object; Software development

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644428089     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508405051277     Document Type: Article

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