Alignment of a firm's competitive strategy and information technology management sophistication: The missing link

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 399-413

  Gupta, Yash P ^a   Karimi, Jahangir ^a   Somers, Toni M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment of competitive strategy and information technology management sophistication; Competitive strategy; Information technology management sophistication

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT SOPHISTICATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0031276788     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.649870     Document Type: Article

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