The High Wire Balancing Act of the IS Project Director

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-39

  Roy, Vital ^a   Bernier, Carmen ^a   Léveillé, Lucie ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Ministère du Revenu du Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case Study; MIS Development Projects; Project Directors; Roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751192663     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1120501.1120504     Document Type: Article

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