How to achieve operational business-IT alignment: Insights from a global aerospace firm

MIS Quarterly Executive

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-36

  Wagner, Heinz Theo ^a   Weitzel, Tim ^b  

^a German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84864951843     PISSN: 15401960     EISSN: 15401979     Source Type: Journal    
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