Institutionalization, embedded rationality, and the escalation of commitment to IT projects

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4924-4933

  Park, Kenneth J ^a   Berente, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; ESCALATION OF COMMITMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE; IT PROJECT; SOCIAL CONTEXT;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 84857946916     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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