Information technology value through different normative lenses

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 99-119

  Lee, Byungtae ^a,b,c   Menon, Nirup M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Information technology performance; Process efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034435191     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2000.11518267     Document Type: Article

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