Coordination strategies in an SaaS supply chain

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 119-143

  Demirkan, Haluk ^a   Cheng, Hsing ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti ^b  

^a Department of Information Systems ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Economic analysis; Information sharing; Infrastructure as a service; Service science; Services; Services management; Softwareas a service; Strategy; Supply chain coordination

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; INFORMATION SHARING; SERVICE SCIENCE; SERVICES MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE; SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77951294127     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222260405     Document Type: Article

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