Overview
- Shows how open information infrastructures can emerge under adversarial conditions
- Provides an inside view into a rarely studied industry
- Provides a detailed account of government action in China
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces (BRIEFSDIGIT)
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Kai Reimers is currently a Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He earned a doctorate in economics from Wuppertal University and a venia legendi at Bremen University. His main fields of research are inter-organizational systems, IT standardization, and IT management.
Xunhua Guo is Associate Professor of information systems at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. His research interests include information systems adoption, organizational change and business intelligence. He got his Ph.D degree from Tsinghua University in 2005.
Mingzhi Li is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China. His major research interest is in the area of industrial organization and electronic commerce. He got his Ph.D degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999.
Bin Xie is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China. His research interests focus on Product/Service’s Harm Management, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, and Consumer-oriented Corporate Governance. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1993.
Tiantian Zhang is a research assistant at the Faculty of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. She got her BA in Business Administration from RWTH Aachen University in 2009.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovating in a Learning Community
Book Subtitle: Emergence of an Open Information Infrastructure in China's Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry
Authors: Kai Reimers, Xunhua Guo, Mingzhi Li, Bin Xie, Tiantian Zhang
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05098-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05097-3Published: 25 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05098-0Published: 10 March 2014
Series ISSN: 2193-5890
Series E-ISSN: 2193-5904
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 67
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT in Business, Health Economics, Pharmacy, Health Informatics, Operations Management, Innovation/Technology Management