Policy engagement as rigourous and relevant information systems research: The case of the lse identity project

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1301-1312

  Whitley, Edgar A ^a   Hosein, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTITY CARDS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES;

BIOMETRICS; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949643241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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