Managing empowerment and control in an intranet environment

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-158

  Duane, Aidan ^b   Finnegan, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Case research; Control; Empowerment; Intranet; Stages of growth

Indexed keywords

CASE RESEARCH;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTRANETS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0037244449     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2003.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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