The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the alignment of IT with the strategy (particularly the … partnership strategy or cooperation practice) and organizational structure of an SME could have a decisive influence on its … multivariate perspective, modelled with structural equations, was used to test the alignment between strategy, structure and IT …

One of the requirements for a strategy to be successful is the use of the proper management system to implement it. The … to answer the following general questions: Do successful firms use a different type of match between their strategy and … their management system than unsuccessful ones (description)? If so, for a given strategy, what are the best ‘organizational …

Experience suggests that strategy entails some interplay of choice, chance, and determinism as causal elements …. Specifically, strategy is predicated on causality, or the principle that strategic choices have causes as well as consequences. Yet … our discipline lacks a fundamental theory of causation, one that integrates strategic choice and deterministic …

The system theory, as explained by various authors, aims at being a general science whose underpinning would be valid …, exemplifies itself the rationale of the theory. The interest of our article is to combine a perspective on learning that would be …