Exploring the relationship between it governance practices and business/it alignment through extreme case analysis in belgian mid-to-large size financial enterprises

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 615-637

  de Haes, S ^a,b   van Grembergen, W ^a,b  

^a ANTWERP MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Case studies; Communication technologies; Governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149104775     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390910993563     Document Type: Article

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