Effect of investments in information technology on bank performance: Empirical evidence from Indian public sector banks

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 400-417

  Arora, Hitesh ^a   Arora, Padmasai ^b  

^a FORE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Banking; Computerisation; India; Information technology; Performance; PSBs; Public sector banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881014452     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2013.055298     Document Type: Article

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