Who is in charge, and whose rules are followed...?" power in an inter-organisational is project

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hekkala, Riitta ^a   Urquhart, Cathy ^b   Iivari, Netta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Glaserian grounded theory; Inter organisational IS project; Power

Indexed keywords

GROUNDED THEORY; INTER-ORGANISATIONAL IS PROJECT; POWER; PROJECT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870714032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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