Governance of Strategic IT Projects: A Nomological Network of the Antecedents of Performance (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

Increasingly, as firms undertake large, mission-critical, and strategic IT projects, the governance and management of these projects is an important challenge. Though prior research has examined the control and coordination of IS projects, not much attention has been devoted toward understanding what factors influence the governance of IS projects, particularly in terms of the distribution of project decision-making rights. Numerous decisions are made on IS projects, such as the integration of business requirements and information technologies and the management of costs and schedules. Despite a prevailing norm encouraging co-leadership of IS projects by business and IS units, it is not clear how and why successful IS projects might actually be governed. Drawing from the governance and project management literatures, we conceptualize IS project governance on the basis of decision-making rights for three key activities: requirements analysis, technical analysis, and budget/schedule m...

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