The indirect effects of intranet functionalities on middle managers' performance: Evidence from the maritime industry

Kybernetes

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 166-181

  Norzaidi, Mohd Daud ^a   Chong, Siong Choy ^b   Salwani, Mohamed Intan ^a   Lin, Binshan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b Asian Institute of Finance   (Malaysia)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Functional analysis; Intranets; Malaysia; Management information systems; Middle managers

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; MARINE INDUSTRY; PORTS AND HARBORS; SURVEYS;

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; MALAYSIA; MARITIME INDUSTRY; MIDDLE MANAGERS; ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TERMINAL OPERATORS;

INTRANETS;

EID: 79955619489     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921111117988     Document Type: Article

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