Strategizing for agility: Confronting information systems inflexibility in dynamic environments

Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-15

  Galliers, Robert D ^a,b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Society of Arts   (United Kingdom)

^c British Computer Society ^*  (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780080463681     Document Type: Chapter

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