How do a company's information technology competences influence its ability to innovate?

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-290

  Gordon, Steven R ^a   Tarafdar, Monideepa ^b  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competences; Innovation; Knowledge management; Research; Resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147094069     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390710740736     Document Type: Article

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