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Toward a contingency view of infrastructure and knowledge: an exploratory study

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International Conference on Information Systems archive
Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems table of contents

Helsinki, Finland

Pages: 263 - 272

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:ICIS1998-X

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Claudio U. Ciborra	Università di Bologna, Italy and Universitetet i Oslo, Norway and Gøteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Ole Hanseth	Universitetet i Oslo, Norway and Gøteborgs Universitet, Sweden

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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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