Toward a contingency view of infrastructure and knowledge: An exploratory study

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 263-272

  Ciborra, Claudio U ^a,b,c   Hanseth, Ole ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economic theory; Globalization of IS; Implementation approaches; Information infrastructures; IS use

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CONTINGENCY APPROACHES; ECONOMIC THEORIES; GLOBALIZATION OF IS; IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES; NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 85025434636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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