Innovating in a Learning Community Emergence of an Open Information Infrastructure in China's Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry /

• Main Authors: Reimers, Kai (Author), Guo, Xunhua (Author), Li, Mingzhi (Author), Xie, Bin (Author), Zhang, Tiantian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces,
• Subjects: Business.; Pharmacy.; Management.; Industrial management.; Production management.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Health informatics.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.; Health Economics.; Health Informatics.; Operations Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.

How do firms jointly develop open information infrastructures? To answer this question, this book draws on the results of a longitudinal research project covering the development of the pharmaceutical distribution industry in China from 2004 to 2012, focusing on the emergence and subsequent evolutio...