The contingent effects of management support and task interdependence on successful information systems implementation

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 533-555

  Sharma, Rajeev ^a   Yetton, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contingency models; IS implementation; IS success; IS utilization; Management support; Meta analysis; Task interdependence

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION USE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; META-ANALYSIS; TASK INTERDEPENDENCE;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 9744271734     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30036548     Document Type: Review

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