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Undesirable framing effects in information systems projects: Analysis of adjective usage in IS project business cases

Nick Benschop, +3 more
- 01 Feb 2022 - 
- Vol. 59, Iss: 3, pp 103615-103615
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This article analyzed the usage of such framing in 20 business cases for large information systems (IS) projects of the Dutch government and found that newly proposed systems are systematically framed using positive adjectives, whereas the existing systems are framed using negative adjectives.
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This article is published in Information & Management.The article was published on 2022-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Computer science & Framing (construction).

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