Challenges of professionalization: Bridging research and practice through a body of knowledge for IT specialists

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 274, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-27

  Iivari, Juhani ^a   Hirschheim, Rudy ^b   Klein, H K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; IT RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE WORK; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES;

RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 47649085883     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09682-7-9_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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