Organizational sensemaking and big data frames: Opportunity, control, and data limitation

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2015-March, Issue , 2015, Pages 4772-4781

  Corbett, Jacqueline ^a   Webster, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big data; Grounded theory; Smart grid; Technology frames

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

DATA FRAMES; DATA LIMITATIONS; ELECTRICITY SERVICE; GROUNDED THEORY; SENSE MAKING; SMART GRID; TECHNOLOGY FRAME;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84944256579     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2015.567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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