Leadership of information systems development projects

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 238-249

  Faraj, Samer ^a   Sambamurthy, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Project management; Software development; Team leadership

Indexed keywords

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE; TASK UNCERTAINTY; TEAM LEADERSHIP;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33646049671     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2006.872245     Document Type: Article

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