Digital business strategy: Toward a next generation of insights

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 471-482

  Bharadwaj, Anandhi ^a   El Sawy, Omar A ^b   Pavlou, Paul A ^c   Venkatraman, N ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital business strategy; Digital business strategy value creation and capture; Scale of digital business strategy; Scope of digital business strategy; Speed of digital business strategy

Indexed keywords

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE; BUSINESS VALUE CREATION; DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGY; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY; INTER-FIRM RELATIONSHIPS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; VALUE CREATION;

PLANNING;

EID: 84876819524     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37:2.3     Document Type: Article

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