Organizational alignment and performance: Past, present and future

Management Decision

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 503-517

  Kathuria, Ravi ^a   Joshi, Maheshkumar P ^b   Porth, Stephen J ^c  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business performance; Operations management; Organizational performance; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247115562     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740710745106     Document Type: Article

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