Managing information system development in bureaucracies

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 473-482

  Middleton, P ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUREAUCRACY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; STRUCTURED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN METHOD;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0032638405     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(99)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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