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Integrating business and IS concepts through action research within a new IS curriculum

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SIGCPR '96: Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGCPR/SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research

Pages 114 - 124

https://doi.org/10.1145/238857.238879

Published: 11 April 1996 Publication History

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Integrating business and IS concepts through action research within a new IS curriculum
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education

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