User liaisons' perspective on behavior and outcome control in IT projects: Role of IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability

Management Decision

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1148-1173

  Liu, Shan ^a   Wang, Lin ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Behavior and outcome control; Behavior observability; China; Control; Information Technology; Management control; Outcome measurability; Performance; Process performance; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904604765     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-08-2013-0430     Document Type: Article

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