Balancing boundaries: Everyday boundary work in information technology project management

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Maaninen Olsson, Eva ^a,b   Mähring, Magnus ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION CONTROLS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS; IT PROJECTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTI-PROJECT ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES; SITUATED BOUNDARIES; SYSTEMS RESEARCHES;

LIFE CYCLE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 63349108241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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