Colruyt: An organization committed to communication

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 175-199

  Janson, M ^a,d,e   Brown, A ^b,f,g,h   Taillieu, T ^c,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^g SWINDEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^h Frobisher Crescent Barbican Centre   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Electronic communication; Management of information systems; Organizational learning; Organizational types; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012542116     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1997.d01-17.x     Document Type: Article

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