Achieving top management support with business knowledge and role of IT/IS personnel

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 428-436

  Štemberger, Mojca Indihar ^a   Manfreda, Anton ^a   Kovačič, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business role of IT IS; Business IT gap; Information management; Structural equation modeling; Top management support

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE; BUSINESS ROLES; BUSINESS-IT; BUSINESS-ORIENTED; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TOP MANAGEMENT; TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80051471500     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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