Determinants of the use of relational and nonrelational information sources

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-331

  Zimmer, J Christopher ^a   Henry, Raymond M ^a   Butler, Brian S ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information accessibility; Information quality; Information seeking; Information sources; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

ASSET MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION SOURCES; KNOWLEDGE ASSETS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 39749157113     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222240310     Document Type: Article

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