Understanding governance issues in an inter-organizational IS project

ACIS 2010 Proceedings - 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hekkala, Riitta ^a   Urquhart, Cathy ^b   Newman, Michael ^c   Heiskanen, Ari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaserian grounded theory method; Governance; Inter organizational IS project

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE; GROUNDED THEORY; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL IS PROJECT; KNOWLEDGE WORK; LEADERSHIP STYLE; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; RESEARCH ORGANIZATION;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870387791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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