Fujisawa sustainable smart town: Panasonic’s challenge in building a sustainable society

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 508-525

  Sakurai, Mihoko ^a,b   Kokuryo, Jiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Business model; Community; IT alignment; Service management; Smart city; Sustainability; Value

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MANUFACTURE; SMART CITY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

BUSINESS MODELING; COMMUNITY; IT ALIGNMENT; SERVICE MANAGEMENT; VALUE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85047956620     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1CAIS.04219     Document Type: Article

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