Using mindfulness to examine ISD agility

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-172

  Mcavoy, John ^a   Nagle, Tadhg ^a   Sammon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agility; Case study; Information systems development (ISD); Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILITY; ATTENTION TO DETAILS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY; MARKET DEMAND; MINDFULNESS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; UNEXPECTED EVENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84872955573     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2012.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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