Strategic alignment between business and information technology: A knowledge-based view of behaviors, outcome, and consequences

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 129-162

  Kearns, Grover S ^a   Sabherwal, Rajiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Business effect of information technology; Business IT strategic alignment; Information technology planning; IT project planning; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PLANNING; IT PROJECT PLANNING; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34249104493     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222230306     Document Type: Article

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