Business-IT alignment: productivity paradox payoff?

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 367-373

  Papp, Raymond ^a  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FINANCE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ALIGNMENT; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; STRATEGY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0032606649     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635579910301810     Document Type: Article

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