Conceptions of control and IT artefacts: An institutional account of the Amazon rainforest monitoring system

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 320-331

  Rajão, Raoni Guerra Lucas ^a   Hayes, Niall ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; Conceptions of control; Geographic information systems; Globalization; Institutional change; Institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450240892     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2009.12     Document Type: Article

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