Generativity in digital infrastructures: A research note

The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 253-275

  Lyytinen, Kalle ^a   Sørensen, Carsten ^b   Tilson, David ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315619361     Document Type: Chapter

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