The institutionalization of information system project management practices

  • Authors:

  • Muriel Mignerat;Suzanne Rivard

  • Affiliations:

  • Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier E., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5;HEC Montréal, Department of Information Technologies, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec), Canada H3T 2A7

  • Venue:
  • Information and Organization
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Considering that current structures are the result of choices made in specific contexts in the past, we adopt a historical perspective in order to understand how some information systems (IS) project management practices evolved and became norms. Using historical methods, we analyze sources of data spanning 52years of IS project management (1945-2007) - interviews with IS project managers and academics, IS project management textbooks, curricula, and the scientific and professional literature - to: (1) determine whether some IS project management practices may now be considered institutionalized, and (2) understand their institutionalization processes over time. Based on this analysis, three groups of IS project management practices may now be considered institutionalized: formal control, external integration, and project risk management.