On IT and business value in developing countries: A complementarities-based approach

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 314-335

  Prasad, Acklesh ^a   Heales, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business value; Developing countries; Firm level performance; IT investments; IT related complementaries; Process level performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649473907     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accinf.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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