Convergence or coalescence? Information technology and the reshaping of industry boundaries

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Poon, Simon K ^a   Davis, Joseph G ^a   Peters, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MUNICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Industry convergence; IT productivity

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS VALUE; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; ECONOMIC CYCLES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INDUSTRY CONVERGENCE; INDUSTRY STRUCTURES; IT PRODUCTIVITY; PANEL DATA; TRADITIONAL INDUSTRY;

COALESCENCE; COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870644227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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