Viewing systems as services: A fresh approach in the IS field

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-224

  Alter, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coproduction; Service; Service responsibility table; Service system; Service value chain; Systems analysis; Value chain; Work system

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CO-PRODUCTION; SERVICE; SERVICE RESPONSIBILITY TABLE; SERVICE SYSTEMS; SERVICE VALUE CHAINS; VALUE CHAINS; WORK SYSTEM;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953074719     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02611     Document Type: Article

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