Understanding organizational coordination and information systems - Mintzberg's coordination mechanisms revisited and evaluated

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Melin, Ulf ^a   Axelsson, Karin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coordination; Coordination mechanisms; Information systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COORDINATION; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; HOUSE BUILDING; INTERPRETIVE CASE STUDIES; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; POINT OF DEPARTURES;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871029121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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