Infrastructuring: Toward an integrated perspective on the design and use of information technology

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 447-473

  Pipek, Volkmar ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design; Information Systems; Infrastructure; Infrastructuring; Software Development

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

E-INFRASTRUCTURES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS USAGE; INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS; INFRASTRUCTURING; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOOL SUPPORT;

STARS;

EID: 70049084207     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00195     Document Type: Article

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