IT in Pakistan: Threats & Opportunities for eBusiness

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-31

  Kundi, Ghulam Muhammad ^a   Shah, Bahadar ^a  

^a GOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; eBusiness; eSecurity; eTransactions; Government; Infrastructure; IT Professionals; IT Policy; Management Styles; Opportunities and Threats; Organization; Organizational Culture; Organizational IT Maturity; Political Environment; Power and Politics; Structure and Size; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868582358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2009.tb00255.x     Document Type: Article

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