Looking for clues to failures in large-scale, public sector projects: A case study

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Purao, Sandeep ^a   Desouza, Kevin ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; MODERNIZATION PROJECTS; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC-SECTOR PROJECTS;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 79952948861     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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