On Information Systems Project Abandonment: An Exploratory Study of Organizational Practices.

Author List: Ewusi-Mensah, Kweku; Przasnyski, Zblgnlew H.;
MIS Quarterly, 1991, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 67-86.
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.
Keywords: information systems development; Information systems failure or abandonment; technology and organizational behavioral/political issues
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#139 0.301 project projects failure software commitment escalation cost factors study problem resources continue prior escalate overruns taken failing troubled sunk fail
#1 0.167 organizational organizations effectiveness factors managers model associated context characteristics variables paper relationships level attention environmental technological based maturity organization's relationship
#159 0.154 systems information objectives organization organizational development variety needs need efforts technical organizations developing suggest given effective designing lack help recent
#252 0.063 management practices technology information organizations organizational steering role fashion effective survey companies firms set planning focus committees executives managing committee