Change factors requiring agility and implications for IT

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-145

  Van Oosterhout, Marcel ^a   Waarts, Eric ^a   Van Hillegersberg, Jos ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Change factors; Enterprise agility; Information technology; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745766871     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000601     Document Type: Article

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