Four paradigms of information systems development
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- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 32 (10) , 1199-1216
Abstract
Developing computer-based information systems necessarily involves making a number of implicit and explicit assumptions. The authors examine four different approaches to information systems development.Keywords
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