Intranet usage and managers' performance in the port industry

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1227-1250

  Norzaidi, Mohd Daud ^a   Chong, Siong Choy ^b   Murali, Raman ^c   Salwani, Mohamed Intan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b Putra International College   (Malaysia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Intranets; Malaysia; Task analysis

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MANAGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

PORT INDUSTRY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TASK ANALYSIS;

INTRANETS;

EID: 34548437514     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570710822831     Document Type: Article

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