The End of the Information System Life: A Model of IS Discontinuance

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 45-69

  Furneaux, Brent ^a   Wade, Michael ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

information system discontinuance; information system management; life cycle decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960009566     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1795377.1795381     Document Type: Article

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