The sociotechnical nature of mobile computing work: Evidence from a study of policing in the united states

Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design: Advancing Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 152-171

  Sawyer, Steve ^a   Tapia, Andrea ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-268-8.ch007     Document Type: Chapter

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