Towards a theory of organizational information services

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 313-329

  Mathiassen, Lars ^a   Sørensen, Carsten ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Equivocality; Information service; Task; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149117642     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2008.10     Document Type: Article

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