Information system design, stress and organisational change in the ambulance services: A tale of two cities

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 283-300

  Wastell, David ^a   Newman, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human centred design; Information systems; Stress; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928343560     PISSN: 09598022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(96)90017-X     Document Type: Article

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