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Research-in-progress: responding—or not—to IT project risks: conceptualizing risk response as planned behavior

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:06 authored by Mohammad Moeini Aghkariz, Suzanne Rivard
Prior research suggests that IT project managers’ risk response behavior sometimes differs from the prescriptions in the literature. Conceptualizing performing a risk response as planned behavior, this study draws upon the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and develops a model to enrich the understanding of the relationship between perceiving risk and enacting—or not—a risk response. The model includes the TPB constructs—behavioral attitude, perceived pressure and perceived control. It also leverages the notion of ‘background factors’ in TPB that allows the inclusion of antecedents of behavioral attitude, in the present study, perceived risk of project without the risk response and perceived risk of enacting the risk response. The research design comprises three studies. Study 1 selected three specific risk responses. Study 2 elicited IT project managers’ beliefs about each risk response. Study 3 (in progress), tests the proposed model—enriched with the elicited beliefs—for each risk response.

History

Publication status

  • Published

Journal

7th Pre-ICIS International Research Workshop on Information Technology Project Management (IRWITPM 2012)

Event name

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014)

Event location

Auckland, New Zealand

Event type

conference

Event date

14-17 Dec 2014

Department affiliated with

  • Business and Management Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-06-22

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