Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion
Subtitle: IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, May 8-11, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (IFIP International ... Federation for Information Processing)
Contributors: Richard Baskerville (Editor); Lars Mathiassen (Editor); Jan Pries-Heje (Editor); Janice I. DeGross (Editor)
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 11, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780387255897
First sentence: Business agility is a relatively new paradigm painted as a solution for maintaining competitive advantage during times of uncertainty and turbulence in the business environment (Sharifi and Zhang 2001).
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