A normative theory of organizational control: Main and interaction effects of control modes on performance

18th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liu, Li ^a   Yetton, Philip ^b   Sauer, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural control; Control modes; Exploitative learning; Exploratory learning; Input control; Organisational control; Output control; Project performance

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MODES; EXPLOITATIVE LEARNING; EXPLORATORY LEARNING; OUTPUT CONTROL; PROJECT PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84870643336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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