Customers are typically dissatisfied when projects fail to meet requirements and/or expectations. While effectively managing projects requires balancing competing constraints, quality is one aspect of project management that has not been widely explored. To address this issue, this research investigated the characteristics of learning/ exploration used to support managing project quality. This ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to managers of urban green spaces. As suggested by findings from 18 structured interviews six Latin American countries reported in this paper, America have not been able take the most advantage available space during lockdown. At core inability is a governance characterized dependence on political will, lack continuity due nonexistence ...

PURPOSE The alignment of information systems with organizational objectives and strategies is a key, contemporary challenge to organizations in general and the health care industry in particular. Researchers and managers alike believe that the selection of new information systems to support objectives and strategies focuses the organization on accomplishing its objectives and realizing the valu...

Information systems (IS) departments are organizing more of their work into projects. Thus, the project management profession is growing and project managers are becoming more and more important to their success. The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers certification of project managers. The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, first offered in 1984, has gained a positive r...

There are two broad approaches to device testing: Functional test – “Does the device do what it is supposed to do?” – and structural test – “Has the device been built correctly?” Historically, electronic devices were tested functionally. If a device met its specifications, then by definition it worked and test was complete. As the complexity of electronic systems increased, however, verifying t...

The purpose of this research note was to examine managers’ perspectives on employee wellbeing in the foodservice industry. Particularly, study conducted 14 semi-structured individual interviews with upper-level managers various organizations within Thematic analyses were employed analyze data. overall findings addressed essence considering revealed interpretation wellbeing, identified major inf...

How DMO managers should evaluate success is a topic of much scholarly debate. Increasingly, there is a suggestion to integrate brand equity into place branding scholarship and practice, so this study aims to understand how DMO managers are using the construct, if at all. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 managers in a Southern U.S. state, and our results suggest that managers do n...