A study of the interaction between is staff and other organisational actors in four organisations

Journal of Decision Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-90

  Adam, Frédéric ^a   Murphy, Ciaran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Decision support; IT Department; Network analysis; Organizational issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024561448     PISSN: 12460125     EISSN: 21167052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/jds.11.73-90     Document Type: Article

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