Twin peaks: Rationalist and cultural perspectives on executive support systems

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 175-189

  Green, Sebastian ^a   Murphy, Ciaran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Executive decision making; Executive support systems; Interpretive cultural approach; Rationalist approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893335971     PISSN: 09598022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(96)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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