The antecedents of IT-business alignment in manufacturing firms

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 322-337

  Abareshi, Ahmad ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; IT strategy; IT business alignment; New organisational forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052661259     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2011.042412     Document Type: Article

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