Institutional aspects of systems development

ACIS 2008 Proceedings - 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 856-866

  Rowlands, Bruce ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information systems practice; Institutional carrier; Institutional theory; Social actor model

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FORCES; AUSTRALIA; CONTROL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS; INSTITUTIONAL CARRIER; INSTITUTIONAL FORCES; INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; NEW INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; SOCIAL ACTORS; SYMBOLIC VALUE; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84869101304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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