PREVENTING RUNAWAY IT PROJECTS: PROTECTING AUDITORS FROM ENTRAPMENT

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1350-1360

  Mann, Joan Ellen Cheney ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditors; Escalation behavior; project management; runaway projects

Indexed keywords

PURCHASING;

AUDITOR; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; ESCALATION BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SYSTEM PROJECTS; INNOVATIVE RESEARCH; IT PROJECT; PROJECT TEAM; PURCHASING DECISIONS; RESEARCH APPROACH; RUNAWAY PROJECTS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870182307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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