Whose job is it anyway?: Organizational information competencies for value creation

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 291-322

  Peppard, Joe ^a   Lambert, Rob ^a   Edwards, Chris ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Information competencies; IS function; Resource based theory; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034420130     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2000.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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