Escalation of commitment is a common and costly problem among information system projects. Although the potential of de-escalation of commitment to failing courses of action has been much heralded, many de-escalation efforts may result in failure due to constituencies biasing facts in the...

The article deals with types of information systems which fulfill a public function and are used to provide the information for the public. These projects and their management are defined by: a high valueadded knowledge-based components, high quality and reliability of their implementation, the...

Growth of web-based applications has drawn a great number of diverse stakeholders and specialists into the IS Development (ISD) practice. Marketing, strategy, and graphic design professionals have joined technical developers, business managers, and users in the development of web-based...

This paper reports on the experience of an organization in Singapore in implementing and eventually abandoning an electronic procurement project. By means of a stakeholder analysis, this paper examines stakeholders’ roles in the organization’s decision to abandon the software project. This...