How Do Mobile ICTs Enable Organizational Fluidity: Toward a Theoretical Framework
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TL;DR: This theoretical paper investigates how mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) give rise to the notion of organizational fluidity and develops propositions on how different combinations of the mobile ICT affordances influence each of the dimensions ofizational fluidity.
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About: This article is published in Information & Management. The article was published on 01 Jan 2017. and is currently open access.
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