Survey of multinational corporate computer-based information systems
β Scribed by Steven L. Mandell; Philip D. Grub
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 993 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0377-2217
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