IT and entrepreneurism: An on-again, off-again love affair or a marriage?

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Del Giudice, Manlio ^a   Straub, Detmar ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MAPS; PRODUCTIVITY;

ADVANCED ECONOMIES; ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURES; KNOWLEDGE BASED; NEW ENTERPRISE; POLITICAL VIEWS; PRODUCTIVITY GAIN; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

COSTS;

EID: 82455217302     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41409961     Document Type: Review

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