THE POLITICS OF IS EVALUATION: A SOCIAL SHAPING PERSPECTIVE

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 94-103

  Wilson, Melanie ^a   Howcroft, Debra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

de facto decision making; IS evaluation; nursing information system; politics; SST

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

DE FACTO DECISION MAKING; DECISIONS MAKINGS; INFORMATION SYSTEM RESEARCH; IS EVALUATION; IS EVALUATIONS; NURSING INFORMATION SYSTEM; POLITIC; SOCIAL PROCESS; SOCIAL SHAPING; SST;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85025678629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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