The Information Society - A Cultural Fallacy?

Failure and Lessons Learned in Information Technology Management

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 219-232

  Burn, Janice ^a   Davison, Robert ^b   Jordan, Ernest ^c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural issues; Group support systems; Information systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010155135     PISSN: 1088128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108812897792232588     Document Type: Article

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