The measurement of user information satisfaction

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1983, Pages 785-793

  Ives, Blake ^a   Olson, Margrethe H ^b   Baroudi, Jack J ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation; information satisfaction; management audit

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0020832097     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358413.358430     Document Type: Article

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