Information technology project failures. Applying the bandit problem to evaluate managerial decision making

Information Management and Computer Security

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-143

  Chulkov, Dmitriy V ^a   Desai, Mayur S ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO   (United States)

^b TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Decision making; Management failures; Project management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MANAGEMENT FAILURES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 18144424368     PISSN: 09685227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09685220510589316     Document Type: Article

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