Recently some organisation analysts have drawn attention to the assumptions underlying their discipline, differentiating, for example, subjectivist from objectivist, and political regulation from radical positions, macro from micro and determinist from voluntarist positions. Such differentiation...

This paper reports on an analysis of risk factors relevant to South African software projects. Seven of the most widely cited studies in the research literature regarding software project risk were evaluated along with a detailed examination of the 53 risk factors developed by Schmidt, Lyytinen,...

The use of challenge funds to promote economic and social development continues to grow, but has been the subject of relatively little research. This paper develops a definition of what challenge funds are and how they differ from other development funding mechanisms, taking into account their...