Ethics, morality and critique: An essay on Enid Mumford's socio-technical approach

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 479-490

  Stahl, Bernd Carsten ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Enid Mumford; ETHICS; Participation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER ETHICS; CRITICAL RESEARCHES; CRITICAL THEORY; ENID MUMFORD; INFORMATION ETHICS; LEARN+; PARTICIPATION; SOCIO-TECHNICAL APPROACH; SOCIO-TECHNICAL DESIGNS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 58149465603     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00138     Document Type: Article

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