Who are the users? Who are the developers? Webs of users and developers in the development process of a technical standard

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-161

  Millerand, Florence ^a   Baker, Karen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Developer; Enactment; Ethnography study; Standards; User

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549113573     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2009.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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