Antecedents and consequences of information systems planning integration

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 628-643

  Kearns, Grover S ^a   Sabherwal, Rajiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental uncertainty; Information systems; Information systems planning; Knowledge integration; Organizational aspects; Project management; Resource allocation; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVESTMENTS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34248993774     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2007.906848     Document Type: Article

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