FIRM CONTEXT AND PATTERNS OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE CAPABILITY

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 174-194

  Broadbent, Marianne ^a   Weill, Peter ^a   O’brien, Tim ^a   Neo, Boon Siong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; REENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS UNITS; DATA COLLECTION; DYNAMIC CHANGES; FIRM STRATEGY; FORMATION PROCESS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES; MEASUREMENTS OF; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349740269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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