On information systems project abandonment: An exploratory study of organizational practices

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 67-85

  Ewusi Mensah, Kweku ^a   Przasnyski, Zbigniew H ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information systems development; Information systems failure or abandonment; Technology and organizational behavioral political issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002191231     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249437     Document Type: Article

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