ENTERPRISE-LEVEL PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES: A COMPARISON OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND IT SERVICES INDUSTRIES

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 440-445

  Sauer, Chris ^a   Liu, Li ^b   Johnston, Kim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Australian Graduate School of Management   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MANAGERS; SURVEYS;

CONSTRUCTION SERVICES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; IT INDUSTRY; IT SERVICES; MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTISES; PERFORMANCE; PROJECT LEVELS; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; SERVICE INDUSTRIES;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84885378089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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