The role of perceived control, attention-shaping, and expertise in IT project risk assessment

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Du, Stephen ^a   Keil, Mark ^a   Mathiassen, Lars ^a   Shen, Yide ^a   Tiwana, Amrit ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION SHAPING; POTENTIAL AVENUES; RISK AWARENESS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33749683619     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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