Organizational assimilation of Web services technology: A research framework

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-52

  Bolloju, Narasimha ^a   Turban, Efraim ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterprise systems integration; Organizational assimilation; Research framework; Service oriented architectures; Web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249862201     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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