Understanding resilience and evolution of IOIS in the Australian pharmaceutical distribution industry

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Reimers, Kai ^a   Johnston, Robert B ^b   Klein, Stefan ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distribution systems; Healthcare industry; Inter organisational information systems; Systems evolution

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SYSTEMS; DATA CODING; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY; INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; SYSTEMS EVOLUTION; TIME-PERIODS;

HEALTH CARE; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM THEORY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84870970072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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