Governance of the IT function: Valuing agility and quality of training, cooperation and communications

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Csaszar, Felipe ^a   Demons, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DECISIONS; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33749651190     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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