Information infrastructure capability and organisational competitive advantage framework

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1032-1055

  Sook Ling, Lew ^a   Ismail, Maizatul Akmar ^b   Yee Yen, Yuen ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Asia; Competitive advantage (CA); Information infrastructure capability (IIC); Knowledge management (KM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930834165     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: 17586593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJOPM-12-2013-0553     Document Type: Article

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