Information systems failures—a survey and classification of the empirical literature
Oxford Surveys in Information Technology
Group process and conflict in system development
Management Science
A social process model of user-analyst relationships
MIS Quarterly
Soft systems methodology in action
Soft systems methodology in action
Diagnosis of an information system failure
Information and Management
Why information systems fail: a case study approach
Why information systems fail: a case study approach
Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Managing Information Technology
Managing Information Technology
Management Information Systems: New Approaches to Organization and Technology
Management Information Systems: New Approaches to Organization and Technology
Principles of Information Systems for Management
Principles of Information Systems for Management
Organizational Politics and Information Systems Development - A Model of Conflict
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
Stop the life-cycle, I want to get off
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Managing the power, politics and organizational conflict inherent in information systems is increasingly recognized as being of critical importance to successful information systems development. The focus of this chapter is the extent to which conflict among participants in an information systems development may be said to contribute to project failure. The chapter describes a research study that explores the nature of conflict in an information systems development and the extent to which conflict may be perceived to impact on the successful progress of a project. In particular, the study was designed to determine which type of conflict (i.e., conflict between which type of stakeholders) may pose the most risk to an information systems development and to determine to what extent conflict can be said to be a contributing factor to information systems failure.The study was structured into three distinct stages. The first stage was a major case study conducted to explore the nature of conflict in a prematurely terminated information systems development and to probe the extent to which conflict was perceived to pose a risk to information systems projects. The second stage involved surveying IT Managers to test the wider applicability of the case study findings. The third and final stage involved developing a predictive model of conflict showing the relative weighting of each of the variables investigated, using logistic regression. The most significant outcome of the study was that information systems developments can be detrimentally affected by the impact of conflict among users who have commissioned or will use the system. Managing and resolving conflict in an information systems environment is clearly a difficult, challenging and time-consuming exercise, but the findings of this research study suggest that the rewards, in terms of higher success rates, should be worth the commitment.