Are social constructivist approaches critical? The case of IS failure

Handbook of Critical Information Systems Research: Theory and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 70-103

  Mitev, Nathalie N ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781845426743.00011     Document Type: Chapter

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