The new alchemist: Or how to transmute base organizations into corporations of gleaming gold

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-17

  Land, Frank ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346675544     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8687(96)80020-5     Document Type: Note

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