Pre-alliance planning: development of an information system infrastructure to support strategic alliance activities

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 132-140

  Mandal, Purnendu ^a   Love, Peter E D ^b   Irani, Zahir ^c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alliances; Business planning; Information systems; Infrastructure; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165660     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310457579     Document Type: Article

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