POWER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A REVIEW USING METATRIANGULATION

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 339-350

  Saunders, Carol ^a   Carte, Traci ^a   Jasperson, Jon ^a   Croes, Henry ^a   Zheng, Weijun ^a   Butler, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

BUILDING PROCESS; POWER; THEORY BUILDING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84902439219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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