Situational maturity models as instrumental artifacts for organizational design

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mettler, Tobias ^a   Rohner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Change engineering; Design research; Maturity models; Organizational design; Organizational engineering

Indexed keywords

CHANGE ENGINEERING; DESIGN RESEARCH; MATURITY MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN; ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING;

DESIGN; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70350662681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555619.1555649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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