
Cultural Imperatives in Perceptions of Project Success and Failure
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter One: Introduction
- 1.1. Background
- 1.2. Development
- 1.3. The Study
- Chapter Two: Outline of the Research
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Rationale
- 2.3. IS/IT and IS/IT-Enabled Change Projects
- 2.3.1. Focusing on IS/IT-Enabled Projects
- 2.3.2. Is the Study of Projects a Social Science?
- 2.3.3. The Nature of Projects
- 2.3.4. Managing Projects at a Time of Change
- 2.3.5. Project Success and Failure
- Chapter Three: Culture
- 3.1. Culture and the Challenge of Placement
- 3.2. The Culture-Free Thesis
- 3.3. what is Culture?
- 3.4. Cultural Theory
- 3.5. Culture in Contemporary Management
- 3.6. Culture and Diversity in Project Management
- 3.7. Cultural Imperatives in Project Management
- Chapter Four: Cognition, Perceptions and Culture
- 4.1. Social Cognition and Psychology
- 4.2. values
- Chapter Five: Research Method
- 5.1. Conceiving the Research Methodology
- 5.1.1. Language
- 5.1.2. Instrumentation
- 5.1.3. Administration
- 5.1.4. Response Equivalence
- 5.2. Developing the Data-Gathering Tool
- 5.4. The Pilot Study
- 5.5. Questionnaire Design
- Chapter Six: Survey Data Analysis and Results
- 6.1. Objective
- 6.2. The Survey Data and Relevant Factors
- 6.3. Data Analysis Techniques
- 6.3.1. Preliminary Data analysis
- 6.4. Results
- 6.4.1. Preliminary Data Analysis Results
- 6.4.2. Nationality and its Interaction with Culture
- 6.4.3. Age
- 6.4.4. Gender
- 6.4.5. Project Roles
- 6.5. Hypothesis 1: Interactions of Cultural Perspectives, Project Environments and Importance of Project/Success Failure Factors
- 6.5.1. SEM Model Fit
- 6.5.2. Impact of Cultural Factors on Project Environments and Importance of PSFFs
- 6.5.3. The Uni-dimensionality of the Assignation of Importance of PSFFs
- 6.6. Hypothesis 2: Exploring the Impact of Cultural Perspectives and Project Environments on Stages of the Project Cycle when Views of PSFFs are Formed and/or Revised
- 6.7. Hypothesis 3: Exploring Views on the Scale of Project Success or Failure
- 6.8. Summary of Data Analysis Results
- Chapter Seven: Conclusion
- References
- Appendix A: Secondary Interview Coding
- Appendix B: Initial Cultural Disposition Question
- Appendix C: The Revised Questionnaire
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