The assessment and selection of high-technology projects is a difficult decision making process at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). This difficulty is due to the multiple and often conflicting objectives in addition to the inherent technical complexities and valuation uncertainties involved in the assessment process. As such, a systematic and transparent decision making ...

e Abstract The Project Management (PM) paradigm is rapidly shifting due to business globalization and information technology (IT) advances that support distributed and virtual project teams. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location [16] and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process [51]. Management in the past implied projects were conduc...

In a longitudinal study of 47 software development teams, we investigate interactions between team and technology factors and the degree of complexity and ambiguity of the projects themselves. From the literature, we propose a theoretical model that identi®es a characteristic of the technology (modularity) and a characteristic of the team process (con ̄ict resolution) used during system developm...

Involving suppliers in NPD is becoming more important to firms in order to incorporate the latest technology into their products. In such relationships the buying firm is often more powerful than the supplier. However, this paper involves some suppliers that are equally powerful as the buying firm. To study these relationships we apply agency theory on the NPD projects where the buying firm is ...

There is a growing body of research on the successes and failures of information and communications technology (ICT) projects in the public sector. However, this literature has rarely addressed the question of why some projects persist and continue despite functioning poorly in several areas. In this paper, we suggest that the notions of institutional logics and status differences provide usefu...

Software technology and computing resources have evolved and developed considerably over the past years and may be considered as the backbone of many business ventures today. However, the software project management environment has also changed and is continuously evolving. Currently software projects are developed and deployed in distributed, pervasive and collaborative environments. This mean...

Technology is viewed as one of the major factors determining the competitiveness position of an industry. For the sake of technology competitiveness; however, countries need to encourage private firms to develop technology R&D projects. How to select proper R&D projects to be supported for governments is very important policy. In this study we propose a hierarchical dependence structure for ITD...

Kyoto Protocol allows developing countries to obtain technology transfer from developed countries under the framework of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Although South Africa is an ideal country to implement CDM projects, it lags behind many other countries in the number of CDM projects. This result prohibits South Africa to obtain technology transfer. This paper studies what licensing mode ...

The Gender, Diversities & Technology Institute is a strategic initiative of the Education, Employment, and Community Programs (EEC). EEC projects focus on improving living, learning, and working across the life span. The Institute leverages the power of diversity—gender, race, ethnicity, economic status, disability, culture, and sexual orientation— to improve education and work globally. The In...