Reliability, mindfulness, and information systems

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-224

  Butler, Brian S ^a   Gray, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Is design; IS management; IS operations; Mindfulness; Reliability; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

IS DESIGN; IS MANAGEMENT; IS OPERATIONS; MINDFULNESS; RESILIENCE;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33845983993     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148728     Document Type: Article

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