The importance of power and ideology in communities of practice: The case of a de-marginalized user interface design team in a failing multi-national design company

Information Technology and People

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-52

  Veenswijk, Marcel ^a   Chisalita, Cristina M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Change management; Design; The Netherlands; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847678169     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09593840710730545     Document Type: Article

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