Antecedents and drivers of it-business strategic alignment: Empirical validation of a theoretical model

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yayla, Ali ^a   Hu, Qing ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedents of alignment; Drivers of alignment; IT business alignment; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MANAGERS; BUSINESS PLANNING; BUSINESS STRATEGY; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SURVEY DATA; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870702912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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