Project termination analysis in SMEs: Making the right call

International Journal of Management and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 69-90

  Kirytopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Voulgaridou, Dimitra ^b   Panopoulos, Dimitrios ^c   Leopoulos, Vrassidas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Dimiourgia SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; ANP; IS projects; Multicriteria decision analysis; Project termination

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049101094     PISSN: 14624621     EISSN: 17415187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2009.023915     Document Type: Article

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