New games, new rules: Big data and the changing context of strategy

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-57

  Constantiou, Ioanna D ^a   Kallinikos, Jannis ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Business environment; Data practices; Management; Social data; Strategy making

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; DATA AND INFORMATION; DATA CRUNCHING; DATA PRACTICES; INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS; SOCIAL DATUM; STRATEGY MAKING; STRUCTURED INFORMATION;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84925963684     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2014.17     Document Type: Article

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