Empirically testing the relationship between end-user computing problems and information center success factors

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 393-413

  Guimaraes, Tor ^a   Gupta, Yash P ^b   Rainer Jr , R Kelly ^c  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

And success factors; End user computing; Information center; Personal computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033425159     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb01615.x     Document Type: Article

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