Understanding the information content in MIS management tools

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 277-290

  Kydd, Christine T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Communication tools; Equivocality; Information processing; MIS failures; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249103000     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249002     Document Type: Article

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