IT and Changing Professional Identity: Micro-Studies and Macro-Theory.

Walsham, Geoff

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Publication Date: 1998

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IT and Changing Professional Identity: Micro-Studies and Macro-Theory.

Walsham, Geoff

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v49 n12 p1081-89 Oct 1998

Explores linkages between the use of information technology and changes in the self-identity of professional groups in terms of how they see and describe themselves in relation to their work and that of others. Microlevel studies are described and the use of macrolevel social theory to analyze results is discussed. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Change, Identification (Psychology), Information Technology, Research Methodology, Social Theories

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Language: English

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