Critical success factors for effective it governance in the public sector organisations in a developing country: The case fo Tanzania

18th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nfuka, Edephonce N ^a   Rusu, Lazar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Developing country; IT governance; Public sector

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS IMPACT; COST EFFECTIVE; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; IT GOVERNANCE; IT INVESTMENTS; IT RESOURCES; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC SERVICES; TANZANIA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84870632324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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