Does employee alignment affect business-IT alignment? an empirical analysis

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 10-20

  Chong, Alain Yee Loong ^a   Chan, Fellx T S ^a   Ooi, Keng Boon ^b   Darmawan, Nathan ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Jalan Universiti   (Malaysia)

^c INTI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Business IT alignment; Employee alignment; Indonesia; IT; It strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956023403     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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