Accommodating emergent work practices: Ethnographic choice of method fragments

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2001, Pages 11-28

  Baskerville, Richard ^a   Stage, Jan ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; KEY ISSUES; METHOD FRAGMENTS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; WORK PRACTICES;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84904266240     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35489-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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