An empirically-grounded framework for the information systems development process

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An empirically-grounded framework for the information systems development process

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Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems table of contents

Helsinki, Finland

Pages: 103 - 114

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:ICIS1998-X

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Brian Fitzgerald

Executive Systems Research Centre, University College Cork, Ireland

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems

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Association for Information Systems Atlanta, GA, USA

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