Reflections on societal and business model transformation arising from digitization and big data analytics: A research agenda

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 149-157

  Loebbecke, Claudia ^a   Picot, Arnold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big data analytics; Business transformation; Digitization; Information society; Societal transformation

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BIG DATA; DATA ANALYTICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; METADATA;

BUSINESS AND SOCIETIES; BUSINESS MODELING; BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONS; CRITICAL RESEARCHES; INFORMATION SOCIETY; MANUFACTURING WORKERS; SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

ADVANCED ANALYTICS;

EID: 84941599511     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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