Measuring the information systems-business strategy relationship: Factors that influence the social dimension of alignment between business and information technology objectives

Strategic Information Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 265-310

  Reich, B H ^a   Benbasat, I ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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