Leveraging IT for business innovation: Does the role of the CIO matter?

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 3997-4014

  Saldanha, Terence J ^a   Krishnan, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Business innovation; Chief information officer; Information systems leadership; IT enabled business innovation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SPANNING; BUSINESS INNOVATION; CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER; CROSS-FUNCTIONAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 84884663964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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