Information Systems Knowledge: Foundations, Definitions, and Applications

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 249-266

  Freeman, Lee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information systems knowledge; Instrument development; Knowledge; Models of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035598787     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011408710845     Document Type: Article

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