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Policy, values, and EFT research: anatomy of a research agenda

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Kenneth L. Kraemer,

Kent W. ColtonAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 22, Issue 12

Pages 660 - 671

https://doi.org/10.1145/359178.359184

Published: 01 December 1979 Publication History

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Chakrabarty A(1989)Computing in commercial banks: analyses of social and organisational impactsFourth IEEE Region 10 International Conference TENCON10.1109/TENCON.1989.177092(969-973)Online publication date: 1989
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