Sustaining IT advantage: The role of structural differences

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 275-292

  Clemons, Eric K ^a   Row, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive information systems; Corporate strategy; Information technology; Management of information systems; Strategic resources; Transactions cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349121459     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249639     Document Type: Article

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