An assessment of the contingency theory of management information systems

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1989, Pages

  Weill, Peter ^a   Olson, Margrethe H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Management information systems; Organization theory; Research methodology in MIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450033559     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1989.11517849     Document Type: Article

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