Managing Coordination in Emergency Response Systems with Information Technologies

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2110-2120

  Shen, Stella Ying ^a   Shaw, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination; dependency; Emergency response system; task technology fit. INTRODUCTION

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AGENT DESIGN; COORDINATION; DEPENDENCY; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS; INTRODUCTION; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TASK TECHNOLOGY FIT; TASK-TECHNOLOGY FIT.;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 85036269132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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