Manager or technician? The nature of the information systems manager's job

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1981, Pages 49-62

  Ives, Blake ^a   Olson, Margrethe H ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Administration of computer centers; Information resource management; Managing computing; Observing managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343935159     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249327     Document Type: Article

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