Using focus groups in studies of ISD team behaviour

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-131

  O'hEocha, Colm ^a   Conboy, Kieran ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b University of Limerick   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Evaluation criteria; Focus group; Information systems development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864742318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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