A multi-method, holistic strategy for researching critical success factors in IT projects

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-52

  Remus, Ulrich ^a   Wiener, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b International Management Consultants   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical success factor; Enterprise portal; Management of information systems (IS) projects; Multi method research; Offshore software development

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749088135     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2008.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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