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Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)90024-1

引用次数: 0

Interpreting information technology sourcing decisions from a transaction cost perspective: Findings and critique 从交易成本的角度解释信息技术采购决策:发现和批评

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(96)00005-7

Mary C. Lacity, Leslie P. Willcocks

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引用次数: 242

AEGIS: Agent oriented organisations AEGIS:面向代理的组织

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)00009-X

R. Unland, S. Kirn, U. Wanka, G.M.P. O'Hare, S. Abbas

引用次数: 29

Neural networks to classify employees for tax purposes 用神经网络对员工进行税务分类

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)00008-W

James W. Denton, Lutfus Sayeed, Nichelle D. Perkins, Amy H. Moorman

引用次数: 8

Chronigami: Folding and unfolding time 时间:折叠和展开的时间

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)00010-7

Donncha Kavanagh, Luis Araujo

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引用次数: 63

Information systems and organizational learning: The social epistemology of organizational knowledge systems 信息系统与组织学习:组织知识系统的社会认识论

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)90011-X

Brian T Pentland

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引用次数: 463

Increasing the interpretive flexibility of information systems through embedded application systems 通过嵌入式应用系统增加信息系统的解释灵活性

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)90015-2

Timo K. Käkölä

引用次数: 26

Merging the metaphors for organizational improvement: Business process reengineering as a component of organizational learning 合并组织改进的隐喻:业务流程再造作为组织学习的一个组成部分

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)90012-8

Daniel Robey , Nicole A Wishart , Andres G Rodriguez-Diaz

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引用次数: 64

High-tech hidebound: Case studies of information technologies that inhibited organizational learning 高科技守旧:信息技术抑制组织学习的案例研究

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)90013-6

T.Grandon Gill

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引用次数: 75

Organisational learning: Collective mind or cognitivist metaphor? 组织学习:集体心理还是认知主义隐喻?

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Pub Date : 1995-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(95)90014-4

Matthew Jones

引用次数: 53