Information Tools for Sustainable Development: Enabling Distributed Human Intelligence

Failure and Lessons Learned in Information Technology Management

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-31

  De Moor, Aldo ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0004748206     PISSN: 1088128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108812898792195615     Document Type: Article

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