Resilience as a source of competitive advantage for small information technology companies

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 206, Issue , 2006, Pages 181-197

  Webb, Brian ^a   Schlemmer, Frank ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core competence; Core rigidity; IT; Resilience; SMEs

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CORE COMPETENCE; CORE COMPETENCIES; CORE RIGIDITIES; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; RESILIENCE; SMES;

COMPETITION;

EID: 33845547787     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34410-1_12     Document Type: Article

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