The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation and Productivity

We gather detailed data on organizational practices and information technology (IT) use at 253 firms to examine the hypothesis that external focus—the ability of a firm to detect and therefore respond to changes in its external operating environment—increases returns to IT, especially when combined...

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Main Authors: Tambe, Prasanna, Hitt, Lorin M., Brynjolfsson, Erik
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77239
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-6990