Escalation of commitment in systems development: A study of tendencies in matrix and functional organizations

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 7-13

  Little, David ^a   Little, Ann ^b  

^a HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GUILFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCALATION OF COMMITMENTS; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0042537919     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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