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Managing Distributed Information Systems

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Distributed Information Systems in Business

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This contribution sets up a general framework of how to manage distributed information systems. A 6-level model of network hierarchy is developed and common important tasks are identified. All 15 papers of this book are clustered accordingly, pinpointing research subjects and describing the influence on every-day decisions in information and workflow management.

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  1. Wolfgang Koenig
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  2. Karl Kurbel
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  3. Peter Mertens
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  4. Dieter Pressmar
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  1. University of Frankfurt, Mertonstr. 17, D-60054, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Wolfgang König (Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement) (Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement)

  2. Wirtschaftsinformatik II, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Postfach 776, D-15207, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany

    Karl Kurbel

  3. Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut, Bereich Wirtschaftsinformatik I, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Postfach 3931, D-90020, Nuremberg, Germany

    Peter Mertens

  4. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 5, D-22609, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieter Pressmar (Ordinariat für Betriebswirtschaftliche Datenverarbeitung) (Ordinariat für Betriebswirtschaftliche Datenverarbeitung)

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Koenig, W., Kurbel, K., Mertens, P., Pressmar, D. (1996). Managing Distributed Information Systems. In: König, W., Kurbel, K., Mertens, P., Pressmar, D. (eds) Distributed Information Systems in Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80216-4_1

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