The effect of soft ICT capital on innovation performance of Greek firms

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 679-701

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a   Loukis, Euripidis ^b   Diamantopoulou, Vasiliki ^b  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hard ICT; Information and communication technologies (ICT); Innovation; Innovation drivers; Soft ICT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884777814     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JEIM-07-2013-0048     Document Type: Article

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