Software as risk: Introduction of open standards in the Danish public sector

Information Society

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-47

  Federspiel, Sofie Blinkenberg ^a   Brincker, Benedikte ^b  

^a The IT Secretariat Economy and Personnel Agency   (Greenland)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Digitalization; Information society; Open source software; Open standards; Proprietary software; Public sector; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951061744     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240903423345     Document Type: Article

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