Cultural Context and its Impact on Requirements Elicitation in Thailand

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-19

  Thanasankit, Theerasak ^a   Corbitt, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 34247373497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2000.tb00002.x     Document Type: Article

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