INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE REVISITED: IMPLICATIONS FOR PERFORMANCE

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 129-143

  Raymond, Louis ^a   Paré, Guy ^b   Bergeron, Franqois ^c  

^a Université du Quibéc A Trois Rivitres ^*  (Canada)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; FOCUS OF RESEARCHES; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; MEASUREMENTS OF; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL SIZE; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34648827303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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