Cultural Imperatives in Perceptions of Project Success and Failure

by Maxwell Chipulu, Udechukwu Ojiako, Paul Gardiner, Terry Williams, Vital Anantatmula

Overview

Global projects bring many advantages and challenges. Cultural Imperatives in Perceptions of Project Success and Failure is one of the few, if not the first, reports of research that examines the interaction of culture and views of project success in a comprehensive way. In this highly complex issue, the authors lay out their research and results in a logical, deliberate manner that does much to ease the way along the path to understanding. There is much to be learned by all in the study background and the data analysis itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935589938
Publisher:	Project Management Institute
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	150
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

List of Figures VII

List of Tables IX

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Background 1

1.2 Development 1

1.3 The Study 2

Chapter 2 Outline of the Research

2.1 Introduction 5

2.2 Rationale 6

2.3 IS/IT and IS/IT-Enabled Change Projects 9

2.3.1 Focusing on IS/IT-Enabled Projects 9

2.3.2 Is the Study of Projects a Social Science? 12

2.3.3 The Nature of Projects 14

2.3.4 Managing Projects at a Time of Change 16

2.3.5 Project Success and Failure 19

Chapter 3 Culture

3.1 Culture and the Challenge of Placement 25

3.2 The Culture-free Thesis 25

3.3 What is Culture? 30

3.4 Cultural Theory 34

3.5 Culture in Contemporary Management 40

3.6 Culture and Diversity in Project Management 44

3.7 Cultural Imperatives in Project Management 54

Chapter 4 Cognition, Perceptions and Culture

4.1 Social Cognition and Psychology 55

4.2 Values 56

Chapter 5 Research Method

5.1 Conceiving the Research Methodology 61

5.1.1 Language 63

5.1.2 Instrumentation 63

5.1.3 Administration 68

5.1.4 Response Equivalence 68

5.2 Developing the Data-Gathering Tool 72

5.4 The Pilot Study 75

5.5 Questionnaire Design 76

Chapter 6 Survey Data Analysis and Results

6.1 Objective 79

6.2 The Survey Data and Relevant Factors 80

6.3 Data Analysis Techniques 81

6.3.1 Preliminary data analysis 82

6.4 Results 86

6.4.1 Preliminary Data Analysis Results 86

6.4.2 Nationality and its Interaction with Culture 86

6.4.3 Age 88

6.4.4 Gender 90

6.4.5 Project Roles 91

6.5 Hypothesis 1: Interactions of Cultural Perspectives, Project Environments and Importance of Project/Success Failure Factors 93

6.5.1 SEM Model Fit 94

6.5.2 Impact of Cultural Factors on Project Environments and Importance of PSFFs 95

6.5.3 The Uni-dimensionality of the Assignation of Importance of PSFFs 98

6.6 Hypothesis 2: Exploring the Impact of Cultural Perspectives and Project Environments on Stages of the Project Cycle when Views of PSFFs are Formed and/or Revised 101

6.7 Hypothesis 3: Exploring Views on the Scale of Project Success or Failure 102

6.8 Summary of Data Analysis Results 105

Chapter 7 Conclusion 109

References 113

Appendix A Secondary Interview Coding 143

Appendix B Initial Cultural Disposition Question 147

Appendix C The Revised Questionnaire 151