IMPROVISATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ORGANIZATIONS

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 369-380

  Ciborra, Claudio U ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Theseus Institute   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY;

DECISIONS MAKINGS; ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS; IMPROVIZATION; MANAGERIAL ACTIVITY; MIS THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85138751653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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