Analyzing the complementarity of web infrastructure and eInnovation for business value generation

Program

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 118-134

  Popa, Simona ^a   Soto Acosta, Pedro ^a   Loukis, Euripidis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business value; E business; E innovation; Information systems; Resource based view; Technology management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953307670     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/PROG-09-2015-0065     Document Type: Article

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