Creating, capturing and measuring value from it investments: Could we do better?

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-26

  Barua, Anitesh ^a   Brooks, Laurence ^b   Gillon, Kirstin ^c   Hodgkinson, Robert ^c   Kohli, Rajiv ^d   Worthington, Sean ^e   Zukis, Bob ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ICAEW   (United Kingdom)

^d The College of William Mary Mason School of Business Department of Finance   (United States)

^e Cisco Inc   (United States)

^f PricewaterhouseCoopers USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Economic theory; IT business; IT strategy; Management theory; Outsourcing; Sociological theory

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; OUTSOURCING;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; ECONOMIC THEORIES; IT BUSINESS; IT STRATEGIES; MANAGEMENT THEORY; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES;

COMPETITION;

EID: 77958093709     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02702     Document Type: Article

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