Four paradigms of information systems development
Communications of the ACMPublished 1 October 1989Open access
Rudy Hirschheim, Heinz K. Klein
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Four different approaches to information systems development are examined, each of which involves making a number of implicit and explicit assumptions about how the system will be implemented.
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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.
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