Organizing Data Governance: Findings from the telecommunications industry and consequences for large service providers

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-66

  Otto, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case study; Contingency factors; Data governance; Data quality; Organizational design; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONTINGENCY FACTORS; DATA GOVERNANCES; DATA QUALITY; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; RESEARCH AGENDA;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

EID: 81055143771     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02903     Document Type: Article

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