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Emerging Topics and
Technologies in
Information Systems
Miltiadis D. Lytras
Universisty of Patras, Greece
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
Universidad de Olviedo, Spain
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Emerging topics and technologies in information sytems / Miltiadis D. Lytras and Patricia Ordonez de Pablos, editors.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: "This municates the various challenges and great opportunities that information systems research produces"--Provided
by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-60566-222-0 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-60566-223-7 (ebook)
1. Management information systems. 2. Information technology--Technological innovations. 3. Information resources management. I.
Lytras, Miltiadis D., 1973- II. Pablos, Patricia Ordonez de.