Popular concepts beyond organizations: Exploring new dimensions of information technology innovations

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-30

  Wang, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Discourse; Enterprise resource planning; Information technology innovation; Innovation concept; Popularity

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMMUNITY; DISCOURSE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION; INNOVATION CONCEPTS; IT INNOVATION; NEW DIMENSIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES; POPULARITY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 70749084777     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00182     Document Type: Article

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