Inter-organizational information systems adoption-a configuration analysis approach

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 496-509

  Lyytinen, Kalle ^a   Damsgaard, Jan ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Denmark Curtin University of Technology ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

configuration analysis; diffusion and adoption; inter organizational information systems; multi level theory; typology

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

CONFIGURATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION STUDIES; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTILEVELS; ORGANIZING VISIONS; RESEARCH AGENDA; TYPOLOGY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79961161305     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.71     Document Type: Review

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