Interpretive structural modelling of critical risk factors in software engineering project

Benchmarking

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 2-24

  Samantra, Chitrasen ^a   Datta, Saurav ^a   Mahapatra, Siba Sankar ^a   Debata, Bikash Ranjan ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Rourkela Institute of Management Studies   (India)

Author keywords

Company performance; Corporate strategy; Decision support systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953322138     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-07-2013-0071     Document Type: Article

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