Impact of it unit's decision right on organizational risk taking in it

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 4082-4096

  Xue, Ling ^a   Ling, Hong ^b   Zhang, Cheng ^b   Zhao, Xia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision right; It adoption; It governance; Risk taking; Supply chain management systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION RIGHT; IT ADOPTION; IT GOVERNANCE; RISK TAKING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84884657041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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