Determinants of a sustainable competitive advantage due to an IT-enabled strategy

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-28

  Dehning, Bruce ^a   Stratopoulos, Theophanis ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Firm performance; Information technology; IT resources; IT strategy; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867974661     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8687(02)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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