Impact of emerging information technologies on the empowered organization

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 1997, Pages 7-20

  Smithson, Steve ^a   Psoinos, Anna ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0031369402     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.1997.661558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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