The ethnology of information: Cultural learning through cooperative action research in a multinational firm

Information and Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 139-168

  Reeves Ellington, Richard H ^a   Anderson, Adele ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative research; Culture; Ethnology; Information systems; Learning organization; Participant observation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042857203     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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