The conditional benefits of early user involvement at employee self-service applications in four Dutch ministries

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-174

  Batenburg, Ronald ^a   Koopman, Gerwin ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Syntess Software   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deployment success; Employee self services; ESSs; User involvement; User participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957668091     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2010.030627     Document Type: Article

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