Wireless devices for humanitarian data collection: The socio-technical implications for multi-level organizational change

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 584-604

  Tapia, Andrea ^a   Maitland, Carleen ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Humanitarian relief; Organizational theory; Socio technical theory; Wireless devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449572898     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180902857637     Document Type: Article

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