Developing a framework for IT governance in the post-merger integration phase

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Pöppelbuß, Jens ^a   Stolze, Carl ^a   Asgarian, Cyrus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Deloitte Consulting GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design science; IT governance; Mergers and acquisitions; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK; BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; DECISION RIGHT; DESIGN SCIENCE; EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT; INTEGRATION ISSUES; INTEGRATION PHASE; IT GOVERNANCE; IT INTEGRATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS; PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN; RESEARCH PROCESS;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MERGING;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 84870659347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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