Managing as designing: Opportunity knocks for the IS field

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 422-431

  Wastell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child welfare; design science; evidence based management; information systems; IS failure; managing as designing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

CHILD WELFARE; DESIGN SCIENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENTS; IS FAILURE; MANAGING AS DESIGNING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77955633296     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.31     Document Type: Article

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