Authors
Craig Standing, Andrew Guilfoyle, Chad Lin, Peter ED Love
Publication date
2006/10/1
Journal
Industrial Management & Data Systems
Volume
106
Issue
8
Pages
1148-1165
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Description
Purpose
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The purpose of this research is to determine how project managers attribute information technology (IT) project success and failure.
Design/methodology/approach
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IT personnel from large Australian organisations completed an adapted version of the Attributional Styles questionnaire, which asked them to attribute causes along a number of attribution dimensions, for IT projects which have either succeeded or failed.
Findings
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The results indicate that IT support workers attribute failure to external factors, whilst attributing success to themselves. On the other hand, executive management took a more balanced perspective which attribute success to external factors and only partially to themselves, whereas they attribute significant personal responsibility for failure.
Practical implications
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More junior professionals and operational IT employees can learn from their senior professionals in attributing success …
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C Standing, A Guilfoyle, C Lin, PED Love - Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2006