A socio political model of the relationship between IT investments and business performance

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 3219-3228

  Hoogeveen, D ^a   Oppelland, H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asset management; Cost function; Information systems; Investments; Portfolios; System testing

Indexed keywords

ASSET MANAGEMENT; COMMERCE; COST FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE; CASE STUDY RESEARCH; INVESTMENTS IN IT; IT BUSINESS VALUES; IT INVESTMENTS; POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE; PORTFOLIOS; SYSTEM TESTING;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84948696889     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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