Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

Journal of Organization Design

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Koch, Thorsten ^a   Windsperger, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Digital ecosystems; Digitization; Effectuation; Interorganizational networks; Network theory; Service logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048680612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2245408X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41469-017-0016-z     Document Type: Article

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