| Madnick, S. Integrating information from global systems: Dealing with the "on- and offramps " of the information superhighway. Journal of Organizational Computing, 5, 2 (1995), 69--82. |
....in the previous section the meaning of that is negotiated within a context, not static and given. Some progress can be made, however, by recognising that users who share a context are more likely to interpret data in sufficiently similar ways to be useful than those from widely divergent contexts. Madnick (1995) distinguished three central ways that context may vary: culture, function, and organization. An example of functional divergence might be the different interpretations put on capital data by an economist and an accountant. In Figure 1 we have illustrated three users accessing a database. A and ....
MADNICK SE (1995) Integrating Information from Global Systems: Dealing with the `On-and-off ramps' of the Information Superhighway, Journal of Organizational Computing, 5(2), 69-82.
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Madnick, S. Integrating information from global systems: Dealing with the "on- and offramps " of the information superhighway. Journal of Organizational Computing, 5, 2 (1995), 69--82.
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