It challenges in M & A transactions - the It carve-out view on divestments

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Böhm, Markus ^a   Nominacher, Bastian ^a   Fähling, Jens ^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; Divestiture; It carve out; It strategy

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS IT-ALIGNMENT; BUSINESS STRATEGY; BUSINESS UNITS; DISRUPTIVE EVENT; DIVESTITURE; DUE DILIGENCE; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; IT ALIGNMENT; IT CARVE-OUT; IT GOVERNANCE; IT STRATEGIES; MANAGEMENT TEAM; STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84870966174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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