How executive sponsors influence project success

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 27-30

  Kloppenborg, Timothy J ^a   Tesch, Debbie ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84944035148     PISSN: 15329194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (10)

1. See Project Management Institute, "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK Guide), fifth ed. (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute, 2013):32;
2. ™: Managing and Directing Successful Projects" (Norwich, United Kingdom: The Stationery Office, 2009):21.
3. See Project Management Institute and Boston Consulting Group, "Executive Sponsor Engagement: Top Driver of Project and Program Success", (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: PMI/BCG, October 2014), p. 2.
4. See, for instance, J. K. Pinto, "The Elements of Project Success", in "Field Guide to Project Management", ed. D. I. Cleland (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2004):14-27;
5. K. Jugdev and R. Müller, "A Retrospective Look at our Evolving Understanding of Project Success", Project Management Journal 36, no. 4(December 2005):19-31;
6. A. Shenhar and D. Dvir, "Reinventing Project Management" (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2007):25;
7. A. Malach-Pines, D. Dvir and A. Sadeh, "Project Manager-Project (PM-P) Fit and Project Success", International Journal of Operations & Production Management 29, no. 3(2009):268-291;
8. T. J. Kloppenborg, D. Tesch and C. Manolis, "Investigation of the Sponsor's Role in Project Planning", Management Research Review 34, no. 4(2011):400-416;
9. and P. Morris, "Reconstructing Project Management Reprised: A Knowledge Perspective", Project Management Journal 44, no. 5(October 2013):6-23.
10. T. J. Kloppenborg, D. Tesch and C. Manolis, "Project Success and Executive Sponsor Behaviors: Empirical Life Cycle Stage Investigations", Project Management Journal 45, no. 1(February/March 2014):9-20.