A model of the internet as creative destroyer

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 395-402

  Afuah, Allan ^a   Tucci, Christopher L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Creative destruction; Incumbents; Internet; Organizational technology

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; MARKETING;

CREATIVE DESTROYER; CREATIVE DESTRUCTION; ORGANIZATIONAL TECHNOLOGY;

INTERNET;

EID: 0442279704     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2003.819651     Document Type: Article

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