The Propensity To Continue Service Internationalization - A Model Of Planned Behavior

The present study investigates the propensity to continue internationalization by experienced international service providers. Enhancing the cognitive-behavioral root of internationalization process theory (Johanson and Vahlne 1977; 1990), this paper builds upon Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behavior. Consistent with the latter theory, the propensity to continue service internationalization is modelled as behavioral intention that results from (1) an overall attitude towards internationalization, (2) structural and strategic behavioral norms, and (3) inhibiting factors that exert behavioral control upon propensity. Using partial least squares analysis, a propensity model is tested on a sample of 193 international service providers. The results suggest that our model explicates and enhances the cognitive/affective character of internationalization process theory.management and organization theory ;

Influence of project risk factors and self-efficacy on the perception of risk in troubled IT projects

Past studies have indicated that if project managers are able to perceive project risks accurately, they may be less likely to continue failing IT projects. A computer simulation based experiment was carried out to investigate the influence of individual self-efficacy and project risk factors on the perception of risk in failing IT projects. Results indicated that project managers with higher self-efficacy are likely to perceive the risks of a failing project to be lower compared to those with lower self-efficacy even though same information about project progess was provided in both conditions. Further, the results suggested that project managers are likely to underestimate the risks of a project with endogenous risk factors as compared to a project with exogenous risk factors

An Examination of the Deaf Effect Response to Bad News Reporting in Information Systems Projects

Information systems project management has historically been a problematic area. One of the reasons for this has been the issue of escalation where resources continue to be committed to a failing course of action. While many causes of escalation have been proposed, this dissertation investigates one possible cause: that the project manager may not hear, ignores or overrules a report of bad news to continue a failing course of action: the Deaf Effect response to bad news reporting. This effect has not been previously studied within the information systems literature. In this dissertation, the Deaf Effect is examined through a series of three laboratory experiments and a case study. It finds that in a conducive environment, where the bad news reporter is not seen as credible, and the risk of project failure is seen as low, decision makers tend to view the report of bad news as irrelevant and thus ignore or overrule the report of bad news and continue the current course of action. Role Prescription of the bad news reporter, illusion of control and a perception of a highly politicized environment are factors that also increase the occurrence of the Deaf Effect

Research-In-Progress: An Empirical Investigation of the Decision of Whether or Not to Perform Risk Mitigation in Software Projects

Although software project risk management has been found to positively affect project success, research suggests that software project risk management is not widely practiced. Addressing this issue, this research-in-progress paper focuses on the risk-response step of risk management and proposes a model that explains and predicts software project managers’ undertaking of risk-response actions. The theoretical model integrates behavioral decision making under uncertainty literature and the reasoned action approach. Especially, the availability heuristic (i.e., people’s reliance on the accessible information to make judgments) is used to explain the variation in the project managers’ beliefs about the outcomes of continuing-risk-inaction and undertaking risk-response actions. The paper presents the survey methodology that will be adopted to test the model

Responding—or Not—to IT Project Risks: Conceptualizing Risk Response as Planned Behavior

Prior research suggests that IT project managers’ risk response behavior sometimes differs from the prescriptions in the literature. Conceptualizing performing a risk response as planned behavior, this study draws upon the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and develops a model to enrich the understanding of the relationship between perceiving risk and enacting—or not—a risk response. The model includes the TPB constructs—behavioral attitude, perceived pressure and perceived control. It also leverages the notion of ‘background factors’ in TPB that allows the inclusion of antecedents of behavioral attitude, in the present study, perceived risk of project without the risk response and perceived risk of enacting the risk response. The research design comprises three studies. Study 1 selected three specific risk responses. Study 2 elicited IT project managers’ beliefs about each risk response. Study 3 (in progress), tests the proposed model—enriched with the elicited beliefs—for each risk response

Impact of IT Unit’s Decision Right on Organizational Risk Taking in IT

The objective of this study is to understand how the company’s risk-taking decisions in IT adoption are influenced by the decision right of its IT unit. The study builds a theoretical framework capturing how the IT unit’s decision right influences two determinants of risk taking, perceived risk and risk propensity. This framework also illustrates how the impacts of these two determinants on the actual actions of IT adoption are moderated by the IT unit’s decision right. The framework is empirically tested using a dataset on the adoption of electronic supply chain management (e-SCM) systems. The findings suggest that the IT unit’s decision right is not associated with the decrease in perceived risk. However, it is associated with the increase in risk propensity. Moreover, the IT unit’s decision right strengthens the positive association between risk propensity and e-SCM adoption, and weakens the negative association between perceived risk and e-SCM adoption

Users' trust in information resources in the Web environment: a status report

This study has three aims; to provide an overview of the ways in which trust is either assessed or asserted in relation to the use and provision of resources in the Web environment for research and learning; to assess what solutions might be worth further investigation and whether establishing ways to assert trust in academic information resources could assist the development of information literacy; to help increase understanding of how perceptions of trust influence the behaviour of information users

Perkembangan Topik Penelitian Eskalasi Komitmen Dan De-eskalasi Komitmen

This article portrays the development of research topic related to escalation and de-escalation commitment for nearly 36 years since the fenomenal research in escalation commitment pioneered by Staw (1976). The research has also become the main reference in several subsequent studies related to escalation commitment. Through the mapping of a number of studies on escalation and de-escalation is expected to provide the researh status to date and some venues for the future research