Alignment: Resolving ambiguity within bounded choices

9th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: I.T. and Value Creation, PACIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 656-669

  Campbell, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alignment; Bounded choices; Comprehension; Control; Grounded theory; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED CHOICES; BUSINESS MANAGERS; COMPREHENSION; GROUNDED THEORY; IS MANAGER; LOCUS OF CONTROL; RESOLVING AMBIGUITIES; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 80053491966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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