Managing the it carve-out in a SBU divestment

18th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fähling, Jens ^a   Böhm, Markus ^a   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^b   Yetton, Philip ^c   Krcmar, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business IT alignment; Case study; Dynamic alignment model; IT carve out; IT strategy; RBV

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS IT-ALIGNMENT; DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT; IT CARVE-OUT; IT STRATEGIES; RBV;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870646803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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