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First edition 2002

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About the Authors

David Avison

David Avison is Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School, near Paris, France, following nine years as Professor of Information Systems at Southampton University. He is also Visiting Professor at Brunel University, UK, and University Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is joint founder and editor with Guy Fitzgerald of the Information Systems Journal and also joint editor with Guy of the McGraw-Hillseries of texts on information systems. So far, 17 books are to his credit (plus one translation from French) as well as a...