Walser, Roman. 2019. An Evolutionary Perspective on Control in IS Development Projects. In Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2019, Hrsg. PACIS, 0-0. Xi'an: None.
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Abstract
Projects in the field of Information Systems Development (ISD) are particularly prone to failure because they are complex in many respects. To increase success of ISD projects, researchers and practitioners usually recommend the implementation of control. The traditional view on control involves two parties: a controller executing control and one or more controllees being controlled. To better understand why control effectiveness has not significantly improved over the last decades, this paper gives a chronological overview of existing literature on ISD project control. We find that so far, research has been strongly focusing on controller related aspects such as the creation of control portfolios. This, however, neglects that the effectiveness of control is highly dependent on the controllees’ perception and willingness to actively commit to implemented controls. We argue that a more holistic understanding of the controllee perspective on control is needed and discuss implications for theory and practice.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Contribution to conference proceedings |
Language | English |
Title | An Evolutionary Perspective on Control in IS Development Projects |
Title of whole publication | Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2019 |
Editor | PACIS |
Page from | 0 |
Page to | 0 |
Location | Xi'an |
Year | 2019 |
Open Access | N |
Associations
- People
- Walser, Roman (Former researcher)
- Organization
- Institute for Information Management and Control IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1146 Management information systems (Details)
- 1925 Knowledge management (Details)