The use of the grounded theory methodology in investigating practitioners' integration of COTS components in information systems

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Allan, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptualization; COTS components; Grounded theory methodology

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS PROCESS; CONCEPTUALIZATION; COTS COMPONENT; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; GROUNDED THEORY; QUALITATIVE DATA; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870962184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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