The impact of gartner's maturity curve, adoption curve, strategictechnologies on information systems research, with applications to artificial intelligence, ERP, BPM, and RFID

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-66

  O'Leary, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption curve; AIS research; Artificial intelligence; BPM; Business process management; Enterprise resource planning systems; ERP; Gartner; Information systems research; Maturity curve; Radio frequency identification; RFID; Strategic technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051939739     PISSN: 15541908     EISSN: 15587940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/jeta.2009.6.1.45     Document Type: Article

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