Executives' perceptions of the business value of information technology: A process-oriented approach

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 145-173

  Tallon, Paul P ^a,b,c   Kraemer, Kenneth L ^a,d   Gurbaxani, Vijay ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Price Waterhouse   (Ireland)

^d Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Business value; Impacts of information technology; Information technology strategy; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034434774     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2000.11518269     Document Type: Article

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