Improving the impact of IT development projects: The benefits realization capability model

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 352-370

  Ashurst, Colin ^a   Doherty, Neil F ^b   Peppard, Joe ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IT benefits realization; Organizational change; Practices; Resource based view; Systems development

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349118673     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2008.33     Document Type: Article

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