Strategic alignment: What else? A practice-based view of IS value;L'alignement stratégique: Quelle autre perspective? Une vision orientée pratiques des valeurs du SI

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  De Vaujany, François Xavier ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

IS strategic value; Practice based views; Strategic alignment; Strategic value in practice; Thought experiments

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ADAPTATION; PRACTICE-BASED VIEWS; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC VALUES; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870961073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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