Purpose – Top management support is considered to be an area that has high impact on project success. However, previous studies have also stated that effective top management support practices may vary across industries. This paper focuses on top management support for projects executed in the software sector. The objective of this study is to identify those top management support processes tha...

Information s>Stems plans traditionallyhave been conceived as a Ineatis of recogilizing opportunities and problems where information technology might be used, identifying the resources needed to support the application of information technology, and developing strategies and procedures to allow information technology to be applied successfully. Prom an agency theory and transaction cost theory ...

Senior managers can have a strong influence on organisational safety. But little is known about which of their personal attributes support their impact on safety. In this paper, we introduce the concept of 'safety intelligence' as related to senior managers' ability to develop and enact safety policies and explore possible characteristics related to it in two studies. Study 1 (N = 76) involved ...

regarding to importance of strategic planning and existence critical success factors (csfs) affecting strategic planning in national iranian gas company (nigc), these cfss identifies in this research using the experiences of managers and expert of nigc planning department and the other references like books, journals and new papers. the purpose of this research is identifying csfs of strategic ...

Although we know that the use of accounting information and the leadership styles of managers are related, only little is known about how the leadership styles of managers affect the information receivers’ reaction to management accounting change. Therefore, using a case study of a company that owns ten car dealerships, this paper explores how the leadership styles of managers can affect the us...

fuzzy logic is one of the concepts that has created different scientific attitudes by entering into various professional fields nowadays and in some cases has made remarkable effects on the results of the practical researches. however, the existence of stochastic and uncertain situations in risk and accident field, affects the possibility of the forecasting and preventing the occurrence of the ...