Is an alignment between business and information technology the appropriate paradigm to manage IT in today's organisations?

Management Decision

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 797-802

  Smaczny, Tomasz ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business strategy; Information technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132017     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006521     Document Type: Article

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