Purpose – Failure is encountered regularly within project‐based industries and there has been research for decades into this phenomenon. Much of it has considered the failure of projects in terms of the classic project progress issues such as time, cost and quality. Using cases from two...

Purpose – To determine the effects of project management skills, entrepreneurial proclivity, and existing knowledge on team reflexivity and performance of cross‐functional new product development (NPD) team. The moderating roles of team cohesiveness and knowledge practice are also explored....

Purpose – Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems if successfully implemented bring about competitive advantages. On the other hand, project failure could, in an extreme case, cause an organisation to go out of business. Mapped against existing literature on ERP critical success factors,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of a commercial partnership in a project‐type supply chain. The research focuses on the performance of suppliers who develop a partnering mechanism for procurement of complex manufacturing projects. In total, four supply chain...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how project managers frame variability for categorised risk factors on enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects. Design/methodology/approach – Weighting and selection of the risk factors was undertaken based on an analysis of data (using PASW17),...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to employ the theory of reasoned action (TRA) as a theoretical framework to investigate factors affecting individuals' attitudes toward knowledge sharing in construction teams in Hong Kong. Specifically, the factors are analyzed from a cost and benefit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, prioritize and categorize the critical success factors (CSFs) for configuration management (CM) and devise a CM activity model to help practitioners in the effective implementation and continuous improvement of the process....

Project management is of growing importance as bureaucratic organisations pass through transition to be more flexible “network organisations”. Work is increasingly undertaken by groups and teams, and the focus of assessment shifts from input to output. In certain sectors, companies are...

The benefits accruing from the adoption of project management are outlined with particular respect to software production. The author′s experience as a consultant during the adoption of project management by a world‐leading solid‐modelling company is described. This was a people problem:...

The article begins by analysing the reasons why many projects flounder. A key feature is seen to be the inability of any single manager to keep track of all the activities involved. Computerised project management systems are now relational database management systems: their increasing...