Complementarities between IT and firm diversification and performance implications

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Liu, Yu ^a   Ravichandran, T ^a   Han, Shu ^a   Hasan, Iftekhar ^a  

^a RPI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCE LITERATURE; FIRM DIVERSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSIFICATION;

FINANCE; INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMS SCIENCE; TEST FACILITIES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33749657497     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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