Crisis response information networks

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-56

  Pan, Shan L ^a   Pan, Gary ^b   Leidner, Dorothy E ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis response; Information flow; Information networks; Network density; Role of IT

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY;

CRISIS RESPONSE; INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION NETWORKS; NETWORK DENSITY; ROLE OF IT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84862271409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00283     Document Type: Article

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