Mobility at Work - A Typology of Mobile Communities of Practice and Contextual Ambidexterity

@inproceedings{Kietzmann2013MobilityAW,
  title={Mobility at Work - A Typology of Mobile Communities of Practice and Contextual Ambidexterity},
  author={Jan H. Kietzmann and Kirk Plangger and Ben Eaton and Kerstin Heilgenberg and Leyland F. Pitt and Pierre R. Berthon},
  booktitle={J. Strateg. Inf. Syst.},
  year={2013}
}
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