Assessing business agility: A multi-industry study in the Netherlands

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 180, Issue , 2005, Pages 275-294

  van Oosterhout, Marcel ^a   Waarts, Eric ^a   van Hillegersberg, Jos ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

CROSS INDUSTRY; CURRENT DRIVERS; CURRENT LEVELS; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; INDUSTRY SECTORS; MULTI-INDUSTRIES; NETHERLANDS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84902532473     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25590-7_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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