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Aligning it and Business Strategy

Structuring the Interaction Between it and Business Units: Prototypes for Service Delivery

Judith R. Gordon An associate professor of Management at Boston College.
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Steven R. Gordon Information Systems at Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Pages 7-16 | Published online: 21 Dec 2006

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Notes

  • Mintzberg . 1983 . Galbraith,1993b; Cravens, et al., 1996; and Lentz, 1996.
  • Galbraith . 1993a . Priem,1994; and Miller, 1996.
  • Doz and Prahalad . 1981 . Herbert,1984; Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989; Habib and Victor, 1991; and Morales and Clark, 1996.
  • Brown and Magill . 1994 . Sabherwal and Kirs,1994; Remenyi, D., 1996; and Rockart et al., 1996, for example.
  • Olson and Chervenay . 1980 . See, for example Ein-Dor and Segev,1982; King, 1983; Brancheau and Wetherbe, 1987; Dearden, 1987; Tavakolian, 1989; Niederman, et al., 1991; and Brown and Magill, 1994.
  • Karimi and Konsynski . 1991 . Alavi and Young,1992; Roche, 1992; Gibson, 1994; and Burn and Cheung, 1996
  • Burn and Cheung . 1996 .
  • Dearden . 1987 . Kim,1988; Moad, 1989; Alter, 1990; Von Simson, 1990; Meyer, 1991; Alter, 1996; and Adhikari, 1996.
  • Olson and Chervany . 1980 . Leifer,1988; Englehoff 1991; LaPlante, 1991; Alavi and Young, 1992; and Roche, 1992; and Jarvenpaa and Ives, 1993.
  • Englehoff . 1988 . Karimi and Konsynski,1991; Lee and Leifer, 1992; and Simon, 1996.
  • Dearden . 1987 . Von Simson,1990; Boynton, Jacobs, and Zmud, 1992; and Cale, Kanter, and Saia, 1993.
  • McWilliams . 1996 .
  • Targowski . 1990 . Sankar, Apte, and Palvia,1993; Gibson, 1994; and Sabherwal and Kirs, 1994.
  • Allen and Boynton . 1991 .
  • Simon . 1996 .
  • Zmud . 1992 .
  • Mazur . 1994 . Sweeney,1995; and Westoby, 1996.
  • Allen and Boynton . 1991 . Cale, Kanter, and Saia, 1993
  • Jarvenpaa and Ives . 1993 .
  • Cummings and Guynes . 1994 .

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