ON INFORMATION-SYSTEMS PROJECT ABANDONMENT - AN EXPLORATORY-STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES

被引：103

作者：

EWUSIMENSAH, K

PRZASNYSKI, ZH

机构：

[1] College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 90045

来源：

MIS QUARTERLY | 1991年 / 15卷 / 01期

关键词：

INFORMATION SYSTEMS FAILURE OR ABANDONMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIORAL POLITICAL ISSUES;

D O I：

10.2307/249437

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Information systems failure is a widely recognized problem in the IS community. However, abandonment of IS projects is an aspect of IS failure that has not gained much attention in either IS practice or research. This article examines the organizational practices resulting in the underlying characteristics of IS project abandonment. The results of a survey show IS project abandonment to be a complex multidimensional issue defying easy explanations. IS projects may be abandoned for any combination of factors including cost overruns and/or schedule slippages, technological inadequacies, and behavioral, political, or organizational issues. The last set of factors emerged as being the most dominant in most companies' decisions.

引用

页码：67 / 86

页数：20

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