Volume 6
Volume 6, Number 26 |
March 3, 2008 |
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Debbie B. Tesch
Timothy J. Kloppenborg
Elizabeth Dietz
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Abstract: Regardless of the number of interested parties or stakeholders on a project, the project sponsor is the executive with the fiscal authority, political clout, and personal commitment to see a project through. Efforts exist that identify and validate a set of executive sponsor behaviors necessary for successful projects. Based on a recent study of sponsor behaviors in the initiating stage of a project, we propose to examine previously identified sponsor behavior factor responses by field and predict there will be no difference between the responses of respondents who work primarily in the IT field and responses of respondents in all other fields.
Keywords: project sponsor, project initiation, project management
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Recommended Citation: Tesch, Kloppenborg, and Dietz (2008). A Comparison of Project Sponsor Behavior’s in Project Initiation: the Information Systems Perspective vs All Other. Information Systems Education Journal, 6 (26). http://isedj.org/6/26/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2006: §2534. ISSN: 1542-7382.)