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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 39 , Issue 3 (March 1996) table of contents

Pages: 69 - 77

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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A. T. Wood-Harper	Director and Professor at the University of Salford's Information Systems Research Centre
Steve Corder	Associate Professor, MIS, in the Department of Economics and Decision Systems, Arkansas State University
J. R. G. Wood	Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford's Information Systems Research Centre
Heather Watson	Research Fellow at the Universityof Salford

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
K.7.m Miscellaneous
Subjects: Ethics**

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

General Terms:
Design

REVIEW

"John M. Artz : Reviewer"

Since the creation of information systems often has ethical implications, the systems analyst is frequently put in a position of making moral decisions in the course of the development process. Moral decisions often trade off the interests of more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

A. T. Wood-Harper: colleagues

Steve Corder: colleagues

J. R. G. Wood: colleagues

Heather Watson: colleagues

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