THE ANTECEDENTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITY IN FIRMS: A KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION PERSPECTIVE

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 246-258

  Tiwana, Amrit ^a   Sambamurthy, V ^b   Bharadwaj, Anandhi ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INVESTMENTS;

BUSINESS LINKAGES; BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; BUSINESS UNITS; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; IT BUSINESS; IT INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; PROJECT LEVELS; STRENGTH OF TIES;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 85138735018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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