Complementarities between organizational IT architecture and governance structure

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 288-304

  Tiwana, Amrit ^a   Konsynski, Benn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Governance; Information technology architecture; IT agility; IT strategy; Mediated moderation; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GOVERNANCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURES; IT AGILITY; IT STRATEGIES; MEDIATED MODERATION; MODULARITY;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77957356995     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0206     Document Type: Article

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