Organizational change as a contributing factor to is failure

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 232-

  Winklhofer, Heidemarie ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information systems development; Organizational change; Project management

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

HUMAN RESOURCES SYSTEMS (HRS); INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS);

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034965497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2001.927159     Document Type: Article

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