DOES IT KNOWLEDGE RELATEDNESS DIFFERENTIATE PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-BUSINESS FIRMS?

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 541-551

  Tanriverdi, Hüseyin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

BUSINESS UNITS; FIRM PERFORMANCE; IT KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE RELATEDNESS; PERFORMANCE; PRIMARY DATA;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 12344333118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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