The Effects of Scapegoating on Willingness to Report Bad News on Troubled Software Projects

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 834-841

  Keil, Mark ^a   Im, Ghiyoung ^a   Mähring, Magnus ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Face saving; Mum Effect; Scapegoat; tware Project Management; Whistle blowing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CROSS-CULTURAL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FACE SAVINGS; MUM EFFECTS; PROJECT FAILURES; SCAPEGOAT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WHISTLE-BLOWING;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84858640619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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