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The Nature Of Project Success, Michael J. Cuellar
The Nature Of Project Success, Michael J. Cuellar
Michael J. Cuellar
This paper investigates the ontological status of project success. The literature shows that success has historically been considered to be an objective property of a project, one that can be assessed and the status of the project as a success or failure determined. However, this approach is shown to have serious deficiencies in dealing with certain project results. As an alternative, this paper suggests that following the subjective view of project success; success should be considered as a politically determined social construction. The paper advocates using Archer’s Morphogenetic Social Theory (Archer 1995; Cuellar 2010b) to explanatory mechanism. Under that theory, …
The Scholarly Influence Of Heinz Klein: Ideational And Social Measures Of His Impact On Is Research And Is Scholars, Duane P. Truex, Michael J. Cuellar, Hirotoshi Takeda, Richard Vidgen
The Scholarly Influence Of Heinz Klein: Ideational And Social Measures Of His Impact On Is Research And Is Scholars, Duane P. Truex, Michael J. Cuellar, Hirotoshi Takeda, Richard Vidgen
Michael J. Cuellar
Heinz Klein was a fine scholar and mentor whose work and life have inspired us to explore the notion of ‘scholarly influence’ which we cast as ‘ideational’ and ‘social influence’. We adopt a portfolio of measures approach, using the Hirsch family of statistics to assess ideational influence and Social Network Analysis centrality measures for social influence to profile Heinz Klein’s contribution to information systems (IS) research. The results show that Heinz was highly influential in both ideational terms (a significant body of citations) and social terms (he is close to the heart of the IS research community). Reflecting on the …