Sustaining strategic IT advantage in the information age: How strategy paradigms differ by speed

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-222

  Hidding, Gezinus J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

E Business; Information Age; Strategic information systems; Sustainability Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035414912     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8687(01)00052-X     Document Type: Article

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