Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses

Matthias Wenzel; Wasko Rothmann; Jochen Koch

Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses

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Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses. / Wenzel, Matthias; Rothmann, Wasko; Koch, Jochen.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems: Auckland, New Zealand. . Association for Information Systems, 2014.

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Wenzel, M, Rothmann, W & Koch, J 2014, Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses. in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems: Auckland, New Zealand. . Association for Information Systems, 35th International Conference on Information Systems - ICIS 2014, Auckland, New Zealand, 14.12.14. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2014/proceedings/ISStrategy/25/>

APA

Wenzel, M., Rothmann, W., & Koch, J. (2014). Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems: Auckland, New Zealand. Association for Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2014/proceedings/ISStrategy/25/

Vancouver

Wenzel M, Rothmann W, Koch J. Tight-loose coupling of bundled capabilities: The imbalanced utilization of emerging digital technologies in newspaper businesses. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems: Auckland, New Zealand. . Association for Information Systems. 2014

Bibtex

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