An example of relevant is research for top managers on IT project failure

ACIS 2005 Proceedings - 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Young, Raymond ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

IT project failure; IT project governance; Pragmatic paradigm; References; Relevance; Top management support

Indexed keywords

IT PROJECT; PRAGMATIC PARADIGM; REFERENCES; RELEVANCE; TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MANAGERS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84869140374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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