Shared services strategies and their determinants: A multiple case study analysis in the public sector

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 477-487

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Niehaves, Björn ^a   Krause, Andreas ^a  

^a European Research Center for Information Systems   (Germany)

Author keywords

E Government; Networks; Public Sector Reform; Qualitative Study; Shared Services

Indexed keywords

COST PRESSURES; DECENTRALISED; E-GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REFORMS; KEY ACTORS; KEY ELEMENTS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SHARED SERVICE;

HARDWARE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870275723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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