The benefits of IT governance

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Musson, David ^a   Jordan, Ernest ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION; IT GOVERNANCE; IT MANAGEMENT; KEY PROCESS; SENIOR MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; STRONG CORRELATION;

ALIGNMENT; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870628383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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