Global IT management: Structuring for scale, responsiveness, and innovation

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 59-64

  Sia, Siew Kien ^a   Soh, Christina ^b   Weill, Peter ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL IT MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL SCALE; KEY ELEMENTS;

EID: 77649257083     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1666420.1666449     Document Type: Article

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