Getting on the same page: Collective hermeneutics in a systems development team

Information and Organization

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-63

  Hansen, Sean ^a   Rennecker, Julie ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Panoramic Perspectives   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective meaning making; Hermeneutics; Information systems development; Interpretive episodes; Interpretive processes; Organizational discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249122050     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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