A case study of private-public collaboration for humanitarian free and open source disaster management software deployment
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a The State University of New York at Buffalo, 325 Jacobs Management Center, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA b Miller College of Business, Ball State University, Whitinger Business Building, Room 203, Muncie, IN 47306, USA c Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, 317 North Hall, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK 74106, USA d MSS, School of Management, The State University of New York at Buffalo, 325 Jacobs Management Center, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA e GSM, Sogang University, Republic of Korea
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Decision Support Systems
دوره 55 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013