Integration between Business Planning and Information Systems Planning: An Evolutionary-Contingency Perspective

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 185-214

  Teo, Thompson S H ^a,b   King, William R ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Association for Information Systems

Author keywords

Alignment of MIS plans with business plans; Information systems planning; Integration of MIS and business plans

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288379     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1997.11518158     Document Type: Article

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