Rethinking Gender and MIS for the Twenty-First Century

The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Trauth, Eileen M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gender; Globalization; Management information system; Research; Socio cultural differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924874931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199580583.003.0025     Document Type: Chapter

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