Investigating the users’ approach to ict platforms in the city management

Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Caputo, Francesco ^a   Walletzký, Leonard ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

ICT platforms; Service science; Service system; Systems thinking; Users perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029752472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20798954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/systems5010001     Document Type: Article

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