Easy up-front it investment appraisal using the balanced scorecard: Example with a portuguese organization

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 464-469

  da Cunha, Paulo Rupino ^a   Videira, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Emerging economies; It investment evaluation; Smes

Indexed keywords

BALANCED SCORECARDS; CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT; EMERGING ECONOMIES; EVALUATION APPROACH; IT INVESTMENTS; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; SMES;

BENCHMARKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84869987495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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