Risk management affecting IS/IT Project success through communicative action

Project Management Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 75-90

  De Bakker, Karel ^a   Boonstra, Albert ^a   Wortmann, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case studies; Communicative action; Information technology; Managing risk; Project success

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955946170     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20242     Document Type: Article

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