Taking the High Road to Web Services Implementation: An Exploratory Investigation of the Organizational Impacts

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 84-108

  Fink, Lior ^a   Neumann, Seev ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Enterprise Information Portals; Enterprise Resource Planning; IT Infrastructure Flexibility; IT Based Competitive Advantage; Organizational Impacts; Web Services; Web Services Applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019414714     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1592401.1592408     Document Type: Article

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