The myth of alignment

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 235, Issue , 2007, Pages 513-518

  Wastell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547921273     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72804-9_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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