Exploring top managers' innovative IT (IIT) championing behavior: Integrating the personal and technical contexts

Information and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Lin, Tung Ching ^a   Ku, Yi Cheng ^b   Huang, Yu Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Championing behavior; Individual difference; TOE framework; Top management support; Upper echelon theory

Indexed keywords

CHAMPIONING BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; TOE FRAMEWORK; TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; UPPER ECHELONS;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MANAGERS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84887054596     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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