Post-merger IT integration strategies: An IT alignment perspective

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-28

  Wijnhoven, Fons ^a   Spil, Ton ^a   Stegwee, Robert ^a   Fa, Rachel Tjang A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LogicaCMG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information management; IT alignment; IT integration strategies; Mergers

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

IT ALIGNMENT; IT INTEGRATION STRATEGIES; MERGERS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 32144457708     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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