A Two-Level Investigation of Information Systems

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 36-44

  Nam, Kichan ^a,d   Rajagopalan, S ^d   Rao, H Raghav ^b,d   Chaudhury, A ^c  

^a Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d 160 Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC IMPACT; SYSTEMS OUTSOURCING; TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS; VENDOR CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030196570     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/233977.233989     Document Type: Article

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