Enterprise agility and the enabling role of information technology

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 120-131

  Overby, Eric ^a   Bharadwaj, Anandhi ^a,b   Sambamurthy, V ^c,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital options; Enterprise agility; Information technology; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745795865     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000600     Document Type: Article

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