Data warehousing infusion and organizational effectiveness

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 976-994

  Ramamurthy, K ^a   Sen, Arun ^b   Sinha, Atish P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data warehousing (DW); Field study; Information technology (IT) infrastructure; Infusion; Innovation diffusion; Organizational decision support; Organizational outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION; DATA WAREHOUSES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MODEL STRUCTURES; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI); CUSTOMER RELATION SHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM); DECISION SUPPORTS; FAILURE RATES; FIELD STUDIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT); LINE FUNCTION; MANAGERIAL DECISIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS (PNP); SENIOR MANAGERS; STRUCTURAL MODEL (SM); TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS;

INNOVATION;

EID: 46649085879     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2008.923032     Document Type: Article

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