It Doesn't Add Up: Why Financial Evaluation Methods are Inadequate in Appraising IS Investments

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 142-151

  Nagm, Fouad ^a   Kautz, Karlheinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Department of Informatics ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

IS evaluation; IS evaluation methods; Pre implementation evaluation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ISSUES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION METHODS; FINANCIAL EVALUATION; FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS; IS EVALUATION; PRE-IMPLEMENTATION EVALUATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84869098497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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