The effect of synergy enhancement on information technology portfolio selection

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-142

  Cho, Wooje ^a   Shaw, Michael J ^b   Kwon, H Dharma ^b  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic; IT portfolio management; IT synergy; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878844245     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-012-0150-9     Document Type: Article

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