The impact of collaboration and competition on project performance

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Singh, Baldev ^a   Avital, Michel ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Competition; IS project; Success factors

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; IS PROJECT; IT PROJECT; MOTOROLA; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; PROJECT TEAM; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SUCCESS FACTORS;

COMPETITION; HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870967289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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