A theoretical exploration of the relationship between outsourcing and business/ICT alignment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cumps, Bjorn ^a   Viaene, Stijn ^a   Dedene, Guido ^b   Vandenbulcke, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business ICT alignment; Outsourcing; Theoretical framework

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EMPIRICAL DATA; PROBLEM AREAS; RESEARCH PROCESS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ALIGNMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870643776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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