Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes

Management Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 425-443

  Malone, Thomas W ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^b   Lee, Jintae ^c   Pentland, Brian ^d   Dellarocas, Chrysanthos ^a   Wyner, George ^a   Quimby, John ^a   Osborn, Charles S ^a,f   Bernstein, Abraham ^a   Herman, George ^a   Klein, Mark ^a   O'Donnell, Elissa ^e,g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Fidelity Investments   (United States)

^f BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^g AT Kearney Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032655173     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.45.3.425     Document Type: Article

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