External information services: A survey of behavioral aspects of demand

✍ Scribed by Leif B. Methlie; Alf M. Tverstøl

• Book ID: 103898834
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 775 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(82)90007-6

✦ Synopsis

More and more of the information a company needs to know ;rbout its environment will be computerized. On-line drtabaser will be available in remote locations and interrogated by persons being assigned gatekeeping functions in various .KY'tors of the company. This paper describes some chatacteristics of the external information services sector of the information business. It reports the findings of a survey of demand of external information services among Norwegian industrial companies. It seeks to determine usage patterns on the basis of r;ompany characteristics, awareness, and experience. Attitude profiles nre computed for users and non-users.