Managerial perspectives on risk and risk taking
Management Science
Characteristics of risk taking executives
Management Science
Software project dynamics: an integrated approach
Software project dynamics: an integrated approach
When professional standards are lax: the CONFIRM failure and its lessons
Communications of the ACM
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Software failure: management failure: amazing stories and cautionary tales
Software failure: management failure: amazing stories and cautionary tales
Software runaways: monumental software disasters
Software runaways: monumental software disasters
Computer-Mediated Communication and Majority Influence
Management Science
Journal of Systems and Software
Blowing the whistle on troubled software projects
Communications of the ACM
Journal of Management Information Systems
Toward an assessment of software development risk
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Moral Hazard, ethical considerations, and the decision to implement an information system
Journal of Management Information Systems
Reluctance to report reality in troubled technology projects
Strategies for managing IS/IT personnel
Understanding the failure of internal knowledge markets: A framework for diagnosis and improvement
Information and Management
The linkage between reporting quality and performance in IS projects
Information and Management
The effects of optimistic and pessimistic biasing on software project status reporting
Information and Management
The Effects of Information Technology Project Complexity on Group Interaction
Journal of Management Information Systems
Relational Antecedents of Information Flow Integration for Supply Chain Coordination
Journal of Management Information Systems
ERP Misfit: Country of Origin and Organizational Factors
Journal of Management Information Systems
Mediators between coordination and IS project performance
Information and Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Individual characteristics and the intention to continue project escalation
Computers in Human Behavior
Organizational Assimilation of Electronic Procurement Innovations
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Mitigating Vendor Silence in Offshore Outsourcing: An Empirical Investigation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Uncertainty profile and software project performance: A cross-national comparison
Journal of Systems and Software
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The problem of runaway information systems (IS) projects can be exacerbated by the reluctance of organizational members to transmit negative information concerning a project and its status. Drawing upon relevant bodies of literature, this paper presents a model of the reluctance to report negative project news and develops hypotheses to be tested. An experiment, which was designed to test these hypotheses for both internal and external reporting alternatives, is then described. Two factors are manipulated: (1) the level of impact associated with project failure should an individual fail to report negative information, and (2) the level of observed behavioral wrongdoing associated with the project. The results explain a significant portion of the variance in the reluctance to report negative information and suggest that there are some differences in internal and external reporting behavior. Implications for research and practice are discussed.