In Japanese software development industry, there are few activities to objectively evaluate effectiveness or degree of improvement. The author believes empirical software engineering can solve this problem. This paper introduces an ongoing national project named EASE (Empirical Approach to Software Engineering). EASE project aims to introduce empirical approach into Japanese industry. This pape...

Project GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) is a major long-term multiphase, multimethod research project to study cross-cultural leadership differences and similarities among countries (Javidan and House 2002). Project GLOBE’s 150 researchers, located in universities around the world, collected data from 15,000 middle managers from 875 organizations in the finan...

This research explores the relationship between organizational support for creativity and perceived usefulness of a knowledge management system (KMS) on project or task effectiveness. It has been shown that organizational support for creativity positively affects the innovativeness of a project (i.e., Amabile, 1996). Moreover, organizations are spending large amounts to build KMSs which allow t...

This paper investigates project management methods used during the execution phase of new product development projects. Based on prior field observations, organizational theory and product development literature, we pose hypotheses regarding the effectiveness of the project execution methods of formality, project management autonomy and resource flexibility. A cross-sectional survey sample of 1...

The World Bank’s health sector projects in Timor-Leste—the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project— have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors underpinning their relative success and considers the wider lessons of the Bank’s experience for our unders...

One of the key factors in successful information security management is the effective compliance of security policies and proper integration of “people”, “process” and “technology”. When it comes to the issue of “people”, this effectiveness can be achieved through several mechanisms, one of which is the security awareness training of employees. However, the outcomes should also be measured to s...

The World Bank’s health sector projects in Timor-Leste—the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project— have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors underpinning their relative success and considers the wider lessons of the Bank’s experience for our unders...