Antecedents of improvisation in IT-enabled engineering work

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 26-47

  Doll, William J ^a   Deng, Xiaodong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Computer use; Engineering work; Experiential learning; Improvisation; Software capability

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; COMPUTER USE; ENGINEERING WORK; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; IMPROVISATION; SOFTWARE CAPABILITY;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 80052861167     PISSN: 15462234     EISSN: 15465012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.2011070102     Document Type: Review

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