Towards an understanding of the role of business intelligence systems in organisational knowing

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 339-367

  Shollo, Arisa ^a   Galliers, Robert D ^b,c  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

articulation; business intelligence systems; case study research; data selection; organisational knowing; practice studies

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; CASE STUDY RESEARCH; DATA SELECTION; ORGANISATIONAL; PRACTICE STUDIES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928139613     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isj.12071     Document Type: Article

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