Digital innovation management: Reinventing innovation management research in a digital world

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 223-238

  Nambisan, Satish ^a   Lyytinen, Kalle ^b   Majchrzak, Ann ^c   Song, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d XI'AN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digitization; Digitizing; Innovation; Management; Theory

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INNOVATIONS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; DIGITAL WORLD; DIGITISATION; DIGITIZING; INNOVATION; INNOVATION MANAGEMENT; INNOVATIONS PROCESS; MANAGEMENT RESEARCH; THEORY;

EID: 85044469995     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2017/41:1.03     Document Type: Article

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