An Empirical Study of the Construct of Information Systems Strategy

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According to the ways of information systems(IS) to support business strategy, this paper proposes three dimensions of IS strategy fitting for organizations in China with theoretically deductive method, and they are respectively business action support dimension, business decision support dimension and network embeddedness support dimension. Then, the paper confirms this dimensional construct based on exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis.

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