Networkability of organizations and business networks

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-130

  Alt, Rainer ^a   Smits, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business Network Performance; Network Design; Networkability

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS NETWORKS; BUSINESS STRATEGY; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK LEVEL; NETWORK PROCESS; NETWORKABILITY; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RETAIL INDUSTRY; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

NETWORK PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 63349087369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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