Practice Use Linked with High-Tech Project Performance: Moderating Effect of Project Characteristics

• Main Authors: Wei-Wen Hsu, 徐瑋雯
• Other Authors: 楊立人
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52649400059588677417

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 企業管理學系碩士班 === 98 === In order to respond rapidly to market needs and increase profits, companies must shorten product development and reduce time-to-market for new products. Project management has received substantial attention in the industry as they help the companies in achieving important business goals. Project is the most usual way adopted to execute non-routine activities or new plans. In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in the factors that may have impacts on effective project management. This study attempts to fill this void of empirical evidence by identifying the associations between project practice use and project success in the high-tech industry. The purpose of this research is two-fold. The first objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the practice use on project performance. The second objective was to examine the moderating role of project characteristics in the relationship between practice use and project performance. The analyses of practice use and relationships with project performance are based on an industry-wide survey. A data collection tool was developed to assess practice use and the performance of manufacturing projects in the Taiwanese high-tech industry. This study selects high technology firms as research samples. It adopts convenience sampling and uses descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, validity analysis, factor analysis and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The major findings are as follows: (1) the results from the correlation analysis suggest that the practice use and project performance are highly correlated. (2) industry sector, project complexity, team relationship, project duration, and product type may have a moderating effect on the relationship between practice use and manufacturing project success. The findings indicate that different project characteristics may affect the strength of correlation between practice use and project performance.