An exploration of organizational level information systems discontinuance intentions

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 573-598

  Furneaux, Brent ^a   Wade, Michael ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Information systems discontinuance; Life cycle management; Obsolescence; Replacement; Technology organization environment (TOE) framework

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIFE CYCLE; OBSOLESCENCE; SURVEYS;

ABANDONMENT; LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); REPLACEMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION ENVIRONMENTS; TECHNOLOGY-ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORKS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80051734997     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/23042797     Document Type: Article

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