COWBOYS OR COMMANDERS: DOES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEAD TO DECENTRALIZATION?

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 63-79

  Wyner, George M ^a   Malone, Thomas W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COSTS;

CENTRALISATION; CENTRALISED; COMMUNICATION COST; DECENTRALISATION; DECENTRALISED; DECISION MAKERS; ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING; SIMPLE MODELING; SIMPLE++; TECHNOLOGY LEADS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0002017845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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