Assessing strategic, tactical and operational alignment factors for SMEs: Alignment across the organisation's value chain

International Journal of Value Chain Management

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-56

  Gutierrez, Anabel ^a   Serrano, Alan ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment assessment; Information systems planning; IT projects alignment; Strategic alignment; Value chain alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249126335     PISSN: 17415357     EISSN: 17415365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVCM.2008.016117     Document Type: Article

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