Sustainability – a new dimension in information systems evaluation

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 492-503

  Piotrowicz, Wojciech ^a   Cuthbertson, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Information systems; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149091452     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390910993509     Document Type: Article

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