Ethics and Information Systems: Resolving the Quandaries

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 8-22

  Smith, H Jeff ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers and Society; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744506311     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/569905.569908     Document Type: Article

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