Top management support: Mantra or necessity?

Top management support: Mantra or necessity?

This research provides evidence that top management support is the most important critical success factor for project success and is not simply one of many factors. The finding is justified in the context of the project management literature and the IS factor research on project success. There are implications for practice because it appears that the conventional technical and project managemen...

Top management support of enterprise systems implementations

Abstract Despite the general consensus regarding the critical role of top management in the information systems (ISs) implementation process, the literature has not yet provided a clear and compelling understanding of the top management support (TMS) concept. Applying metastructuring (Orlikowski et al., 1995) as a guiding framework for understanding TMS behaviors, this paper attempts to address...

Gender sensitivity : nicety or necessity in peace - process management ?

Exploring Factors Affectng Top Management Support of It Implementation

This paper presents a qualitative study on top management support of IT implementation in a hospital’s cloud computing IT project. Drawing upon stakeholder theory, top management support over the implementation was found to be dynamic, depending on eight higher order factors such as IT productivity paradox, perceived IT importance, flexible IT personnel, trust, project-enabled intangibles, assi...

Lwr Recycle: Necessity or Impediment?

The nuclear fuel cycle can be truly closed by supp lementing today’s thermal reactors with fast reactors, which can use as fuel the heavy, fissionable isotopes that accumulate in thermal-reactor fuel. In a fully closed cycle, the waste for disposal consists only of fission products with trace amounts of actinides. Eliminating the transuranics reduces the heat load in the repository, increasing ...