Information systems evaluation: A crisis of understanding

Evaluating Information Systems: Public and Private Sector

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages xix-xxxvi

  Irani, Zahir ^a   Love, Peter E D ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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