Rationality in strategic information technology decisions: The impact of shared domain knowledge and IT unit structure

Decision Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-86

  Ranganathan, C ^a   Sethi, Vijay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Information Systems Management; IT Unit Structure; Rationality; Shared Domain Knowledge; Strategic IT Decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036016144     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2002.tb01636.x     Document Type: Article

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