The paper presents an overview of about forty information system projects in the administration of two Finnish universities, Helsinki and Oulu. A more detailed analysis is given of the respective histories of management reporting and data warehouse development. The histories are put in context by describing the state of information technology strategy development in these universities. It appea...

This chapter explores and offers a critique of the ways that foreign aid projects engage with the problem of violence against women in Papua New Guinea. Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen and Stephen Lewis, writers who bravely defend humanist ideals and enable the exposure of much of the empty rhetoric about diversity and equality as public relations talk, I argue that aid projects directed at...

Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) projects often lead to disappointing outcomes, even downright failures, which is not in keeping with the vast investments they represent. Many explanations have been provided, but it seems to be difficult to move beyond the specificities of each case study of failure. In any case, the publication of long lists of CSFs for ERP implementations has failed...

Abstract Enterprise resource planning systems, if implemented successfully, can bestow impressive strategic, operational and information-related benefits to adopting firms. A failed implementation can often spell financial doom. Currently, most of the information about the failures and successes are based on reports on implementations in large manufacturing and service organizations. But enterp...

Past research has shown that most offshore IS outsourcing projects were failed. Communication and coordination problems caused by culture differences between clients and vendors are important reasons for the failures. The theory of boundary spanning capability provides a new theoretical perspective for research of coordination and communication mechanisms between clients and vendors in offshore...

The number of IT projects outsourced for software development is increasing day by day as outsourcing is anticipated to provide substantial benefits and the organizations which outsource the projects have certain constraints. But unfortunately, a considerable number of the projects which are outsourced for development are failed in realizing the estimated results. The failure reasons are often ...

Offshore-outsourced software development (OOSD) projects involvemultifaceted risks throughout the project execution, as they are handed over tothird-party organizations and thus are exposed to more risks than in domesticoutsourcing or captive offshoring. We concentrate on failed OOSD projects inthis paper and analyze the unique aspects of such projects at the team level thatlead to failures. Us...

This article traces Pasolini’s engagement with Aeschylus Oresteia and the concept of “irrational,” through which he sought to excavate patterns ideological resistance in classical past. I argue that translations adaptations ultimately failed achieve his desired ambition forward an fit for proletariat, whose words might spark new kinds Marxist thought. However, there is value reading into practi...

Among the most visually striking river restoration projects are those that involve the creation of a new channel, often in a new alignment and generally with a form and dimensions that are different from those of the preproject channel. These channel reconstruction projects often have the objective of creating a stable, single-thread, meandering channel, even on rivers that were not historicall...