Digital business strategy and value creation: Framing the dynamic cycle of control points

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 617-632

  Pagani, Margherita ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control points; Digital business strategy; Disruptive innovation; Incremental innovation; Value network

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; COMPETITION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CONTROL POINT; DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGY; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; INCREMENTAL INNOVATION; VALUE NETWORK;

PLANNING;

EID: 84876842420     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.2.13     Document Type: Article

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