Strategy matters: The role of strategy type for IT business value

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 578-587

  Beimborn, Daniel ^a   Franke, Jochen ^a   Wagner, Heinz Theo ^a   Weitzel, Tim ^b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business strategy; IT business alignment; It flexibility; IT value creation; Process performance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BUSINESS STRATEGY; IT FLEXIBILITY; IT VALUE CREATION; IT-BUSINESS ALIGNMENTS; PROCESS PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869991282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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