RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT PROJECT TERMINATION DECISIONS BY DISCRIMINANT-ANALYSIS - AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON

被引：19

作者：

BROCKHOFF, K

机构：

[1] Director of the Institute for Research in Innovation Management, Christian-Albrechts-University, D 24098 Kiel

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT | 1994年 / 41卷 / 03期

关键词：

Data acquisition - Data reduction - Decision theory - Evaluation - Project management - Technology;

D O I：

10.1109/17.310139

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Substantial efforts have been made to improve R&D project termination decisions. One major stream of research has demonstrated that discriminant functions can distinguish between successful and nonsuccessful projects. It is of considerable importance to test the validity of discriminant functions. In the present study we show the applicability of a discriminant function that was originally developed by Balachandra [2] for US R&D projects to data from British and German R&D projects. The results are mixed. It is encouraging that a very high percentage of projects can be correctly classified as successes or failures. But the discriminant functions vary between countries. Thus, the results reveal different management perceptions of project success factors in these countries.

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