Mis design: A contingency approach

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 13-20

  Schonberger, Richard J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Department of Defense ^*

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Information analysis; Information systems; MIS design; MIS development; Systems analysis; User involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005592915     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/248864     Document Type: Article

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