Risk Factors in Vendor-Driven IT Projects

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 777-784

  Taylor, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

IT project risk management; risk factors; software packages

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS;

HONG-KONG; IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS; IT PROJECT; IT PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT; POTENTIAL RISKS; PROJECT MANAGERS; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

EID: 84901535610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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