Beyond the information center: An instrument to measure end-user computing support from multiple sources

Information and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 241-250

  Govindarajulu, Chittibabu ^a   Reithel, Brian J ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Centralized and decentralized EUC support; EUC support; EUC support instrument; Instrument validity; Local MIS staff

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002468339     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(98)00030-5     Document Type: Article

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