Strategic scanning project failure and abandonment factors: Lessons learned

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 371-386

  Lesca, Nicolas ^a,b   Caron Fasan, Marie Laurence ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Grenoble Business School   (France)

Author keywords

Action research; Project abandonment factors; Project failure factors; Strategic scanning; System abandonment factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349093554     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2008.21     Document Type: Article

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