An exploratory study of the value of pretraining end-user participation

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-79

  Shayo, Conrad ^b   Olfman, Lorne ^a   Teitelroit, Ricardo ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End user computing; End user training; Involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033481695     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1999.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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