A two-stage analysis of the influences of employee alignment on effecting business-IT alignment

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 490-498

  Wong, T C ^a   Ngan, Shing Chung ^a   Chan, Felix T S ^b   Chong, Alain Yee Loong ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business IT alignment; Employee alignment; Neural network; PC algorithm

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT; EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; PC-ALGORITHM; SURVEY DATA; TWO-STAGE ANALYSIS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84862573880     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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