IT Investment Under Competition: The Role of Implementation Failure

Mingdi Xin
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Mingdi Xin
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Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697
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Vidyanand Choudhary
Vidyanand Choudhary
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Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697
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Mingdi Xin

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Mingdi Xin

[email protected]

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-0151

Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

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Vidyanand Choudhary

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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8812-4232

Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

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Published Online:30 Jul 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.3005

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Received:February 12, 2015
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Published Online:July 30, 2018

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