The Impact of Organizational Learning on Lack of Team's Expertise Risk in Information Systems Projects

Abstract

During the past decade, information systems investment has grown rapidly worldwide and information systems project development has become one of the most important targets in e-business. Yet, the failure of information systems projects is a common occurrence in many organizations around the world. A theoretical model is derived based upon organizational learning theory and prior research in order to examine the effects of organizational learning on lack of team's expertise risk. A survey method is applied to test the hypotheses proposed by the research model, and Taiwanese corporate companies serve as examples. After survey by questionnaire and analyze the data by structure equation modeling, the result reveals that organizational learning has significantly negative impacts on all of the lack of development expertise risk, lack of domain expertise risk, and lack of general expertise risk. These findings support information systems managers with valuable information to revisit their priorities in terms of the relative efforts in organization learning.