Allocation of it decision rights in multibusiness organizations: What decisions, who makes them, and when are they taken?

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Reynolds, Peter ^a,b   Thorogood, Alan ^c,d   Yetton, Philip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Mergers and Acquisitions Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business value of IT; Business IT alignment; IT governance; IT investment; IT management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS VALUE; BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT; IT GOVERNANCE; IT INVESTMENTS; IT MANAGEMENT;

ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84870962167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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