The politics of post-implementation reviews

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-319

  Gwillim, David ^a   Dovey, Ken ^a   Wieder, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ex post evaluation; IT governance; Organizational leadership; Post implementation review; Strategic IT investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 25644461116     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2005.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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