"You can't make this a science!" - Analyzing decision support systems in political contexts

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 543-552

  Andersson, Annika ^a   Grönlund, Åke ^a   Åström, Joachim ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Challenges; Decision support systems (DSS); Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA); Political context; Public sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866270876     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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