Information infrastructure as organization: A critical realist view;L'infrastructure de l'information comme une organisation: Une perspective critique et réaliste

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bygstad, Bendik ^a  

^a Norwegian School of IT   (Norway)

Author keywords

Critical realism; Information infrastructures; Socio technical theory

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL REALISM; INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SOCIOTECHNICAL; TECHNICAL STRUCTURES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84870965351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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