Shifting ground for health information systems: Local Embeddedness, Global Fields, and Legitimation

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-12

  Miscione, Gianluca ^a   Staring, Knut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Action Oriented Framework; Global IS; Information Infrastructure; Information System Design; IS Implementation Approaches; Qualitative Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858321351     PISSN: 19416253     EISSN: 19416261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jskd.2009062601     Document Type: Article

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