Understanding Intranets in the Context of End-User Computing

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-85

  Lamb, Roberta ^a   Davidson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

End user computin Technology skills; integration; Intranets; IT adoption and diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751178989     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1047070.1047076     Document Type: Article

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