Tight versus loose organizational coupling within inter- Firm networks in the enterprise software industry - The perspective of complementors

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 5605-5613

  Kude, Thomas ^a   Dibbern, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterprise application software industry; Modularity; Organizational coupling; Relational view; Resource dependence theory; Service oriented architectures; Small and medium sized companies

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; MEDIUM-SIZED COMPANIES; MODULARITY; RELATIONAL VIEW; RESOURCE DEPENDENCE THEORY;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870337982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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