Information Technology and Internal Firm Organization: An Exploratory Analysis

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-101

  Hitt, Lorin M ^a,b,c   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Information technology incentives; Organizational architecture; Overload; Technology usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288358     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1997.11518166     Document Type: Article

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