Strategies for global information systems development

Information and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-59

  Akmanligil, Murad ^a   Palvia, Prashant C ^b  

^a FedEx Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Global information technology IS development strategies; IS success

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGERS; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PURCHASING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES; IS SUCCESS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 4544372007     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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