The impact of personality on information technology team projects

SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 273-279

  Peslak, Alan R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IT projects; IT success factors; Personality; Team processes; Teams

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

IT PROJECTS; IT SUCCESS FACTORS; PERSONALITY; TEAM PROCESSES; TEAMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33745859396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125170.1125233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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