The effect of generalized competition and strategy on the business value of information and communication technologies

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-38

  Loukis, Euripidis ^a   Sapounas, Ioakim ^a   Aivalis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b ICAP   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business performance; Communication technologies; Greece; Information systems; Management strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349189714     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390810842237     Document Type: Article

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