Environmental uncertainty and IT infrastructure governance: A curvilinear relationship

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 389-399

  Xue, Ling ^a   Ray, Gautam ^b   Gu, Bin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Environmental uncertainty; IT infrastructure governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960704008     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0269     Document Type: Article

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