A Microeconomic approach to the measurement of information technology value

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 55-69

  Alpar, Paul ^a   Kim, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Key ratios of firm performance and information technology deployment; Measurement of information technology value; Production in commercial and retail banking; Translog cost function

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549129041     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1990.11517889     Document Type: Article

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