Information technologies and business value: An analytic and empirical investigation

Information Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 3-23

  Barua, Anitesh ^a   Kriebel, Charles H ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Tridas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EXOGENOUS VARIABLES; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MANUFACTURING SECTOR; MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS; PROCESS ORIENTATION; STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS; TWO-STAGE ANALYSIS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 33645050778     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.6.1.3     Document Type: Article

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