Information systems-business strategy alignment: The dynamics of alignment: Insights from a punctuated equilibrium model

Strategic Information Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 311-346

  Sabherwal, R ^a   Hirschheim, R ^b   Goles, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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