Boundary objects as a framework to understand the role of systems integrators

Systems Research Forum

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-18

  Fong, Allan ^a   Valerdi, Ricardo ^a   Srinivasan, Jayakanth ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY OBJECTS; INDUSTRY MEMBERS; LARGE-SCALE ENGINEERING; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; SYSTEM INTEGRATORS; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS; US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960312470     PISSN: 17939666     EISSN: 17939674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793966607000042     Document Type: Article

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