Gaining agility through IT personnel capabilities: The mediating role of IT infrastructure capabilities

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 440-462

  Fink, Lior ^a   Neumann, Seev ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

IT infrastructure capabilities; IT personnel capabilities; IT dependent organizational agility; IT dependent strategic agility

Indexed keywords

IT INFRASTRUCTURE CAPABILITY; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; IT PERSONNEL CAPABILITY; IT-DEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY; IT-DEPENDENT STRATEGIC AGILITY; MEDIATING ROLES; ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY; RESEARCH MODELS; SYSTEM INFORMATION; SYSTEMS AND INFORMATION;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 57049124511     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00135     Document Type: Article

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