Artifact or equipment? Rethinking the core of is using Heidegger's ways of being

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2036-2053

  Riemer, Kai ^a   Johnston, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Appropriation; Cartesianism; Heidegger; IT artifact; IT as equipment; Ontology

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATION; CARTESIANISM; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; HEIDEGGER; IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS; IS DISCIPLINES; IT ARTIFACT; USER PRACTICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84884656025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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