Documents as mediating artifacts in contemporary IS development

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  McLeod, Laurie ^a   Doolin, Bill ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; IS DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77951746706     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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