Building theory from practice: Opportunities in is project management

Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3355-3363

  Reynolds, Peter ^a   Yetton, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exploratory research; IS project management; IS research methodology; Practice led research; Theory building

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HIGH POTENTIAL; IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; THEORY BUILDING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870218593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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