Alliances, rivalry, and firm performance in enterprise systems software markets: A social network approach

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 849-871

  Chellappa, Ramnath K ^a   Saraf, Nilesh ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enterprise resource planning (ERP); Partnerships; Social network theory; Software architecture; Software industry; Standards competition; Technology standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957371492     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0278     Document Type: Article

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