Measuring top management's IT governance knowledge absorptive capacity

Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-155

  Ali, Syaiful ^a   Green, Peter ^b   Robb, Alastair ^b  

^a GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity theory; IT governance; Second order confirmatory factor analysis; Top management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879742457     PISSN: 08887985     EISSN: 15587959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/isys-50325     Document Type: Article

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