Introduction: An agenda for infrastructure studies

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 364-374

  Edwards, Paul N ^a   Jackson, Steven J ^a   Bowker, Geoffrey C ^b   Williams, Robin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70749111181     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00200     Document Type: Article

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