On-line support - A virtual treasure trove for end-user developers in small organisations?

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 5471-5478

  Korvela, Henri ^a   Packalén, Kristian ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Community of practice; End user development; SME; Support

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; COMPUTER SKILL; COMPUTER-RELATED PROBLEMS; END USER DEVELOPMENT; END-USER DEVELOPERS; ONLINE SUPPORT; SME; SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS; WORK-RELATED;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUPPORTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84870363123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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