Determining organizational information needs: The critical success factors approach

Information Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Huotari, Maija Leena ^a   Wilson, T D ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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