Rethinking Business-IT Alignment

The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chan, Yolande E ^a   Reich, Blaize Horner ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alignment creation; Alignment research; Information technology alignment; Practitioners; Researchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924911812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199580583.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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