How digital is communication in your organization? A metrics and an analysis method

ICEIS 2003 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 156-166

  Tyrväinen, Pasi ^a   Päivärinta, Tero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Categories of communication forms; CCF; Digital media; Genre theory; IT investment paradox; Measures for digitalisation; Measuring organizational communication; Metrics; Taxonomy of communication media

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; INVESTMENTS;

CCF; COMMUNICATION MEDIA; GENRE THEORY; IT INVESTMENTS; MEASURES FOR DIGITALISATION; METRICS; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84910063051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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