Development Scenarios for Organizational Memory Information Systems

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 121-146

  Wijnhoven, Fons ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b National BETA Research School

Author keywords

Information systems development scenario; Information systems project management; Memory codification; OMIS infrastructure; OMIS superstructure; Organizational memory information systems; Process scenarios; Situated systems development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033277398     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1999.11518236     Document Type: Article

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