The impact of outsourcing on IT business alignment and IT flexibility: A survey in the german banking industry

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3177-3186

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

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

IT business alignment; IT flexibility; IT outsourcing

Indexed keywords

BANKING INDUSTRY; BUSINESS VALUE; IT BUSINESS; IT FLEXIBILITY; IT OUTSOURCING; IT PRODUCTIVITY; OUTSOURCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870328686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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