Effect of information management capability on organizational performance

[EN] This study assesses the value for organizations of effectively managing information. It develops the information management concept from the resourcebased view and proposes and validates a scale to measure the capability of information management in an organization. Empirical research in the Spanish IT consulting and telecommunication sectors enables us to vouch for the positive causal relation between information management capability and three different measures of organizational performance: competitive position, productivity, and customer satisfaction.The authors thank the financial support from project DER2015-65519-C2-2-R MINECO/FEDER, UE.Devece Carañana, CA.; Palacios Marqués, D.; Martínez Simarro, D. (2017). Effect of information management capability on organizational performance. 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Organizational culture and partner interaction in the management of international joint ventures in India

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