Challenges of multicultural data collection and analysis: Experiences from the health information system research

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-82

  Raitoharju, Reetta ^a   Heiro, Eeva ^b   Kini, Ranjan ^c   D'Cruz, Martin ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c School of Business and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Health care professionals; Information systems; Interview; Multicultural data collection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864741564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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