Bmw - A Case Study

References

Angle, H. L. and J. L. Perry (1981). "An Empirical Assessment of Organizational Commitment and

Organizational Effectiveness." Administrative Science Quarterly 26 : 1-13.

Arkes, H. R. and C. Blumer (1985). "The Psychology of Sunk Cost." Organizational Behavior and Human

Decision Processes 35 : 124-140.

Basili, V. R., G. Caldiera, et al. (1992). "A Reference Architecture for the Component Factory." ACM

Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 1 (1): 53-80.

Bowen, M. G. (1987). "The Escalation Phenomenon Reconsidered: Decision Dilemmas or Decision Errors?"

Academy of Management Review 12 (1): 52-66.

Brockner, J. (1992). "The Escalation of Commitment to a Falling Course of Action: Toward Theoretical

Progress." Academy of Management Review 17 (1): 39-61.

Brockner, J., S. Nathanson, et al. (1984). "The Role of Modeling Processes in the "Knee Deep in the Big

Muddy" Phenomenon." Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 33 : 77-99.

Brooks, F. P. (1987). "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering." Computer 20 (4): 10-

19.

Ewusi-Mensah, K. and Z. H. Prazasnyski (1994). "Factors contributing to the abandonment of information

systems development projects." Journal of Information Technology 9 : 185-201.

Fox, F. V. and B. M. Staw (1979). "The Trapped Administrator: Effects of Job Insecurity and Policy Resistance

upon Commitment to a Course of Action." Administrative Science Quarterly 24 (September): 449-471.

Garland, H. (1990). "Throwing Good Money After Bad: The Effect of Sunk Cost on the Decision to Escalate

Commitment to an Ongoing Project." Journal of Applied Psychology 75 (6): 728-731.

Hall, R. H. (1991). Organizations Ð'-- Structures, Processes, & Outcomes. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,

Prentice Hall, Inc.

Jones, C. (1995). "Risk of Software System Failiure or Disaster." American Programmer 8 (3): 2-9.

Keil, M. (1995a). "Identifying and Preventing Runaway Systems Project." American Programmer 8 (3): 16-22.

Keil, M. (1995b). Pulling the Plug: Software Project Management and the Problem of Project Escalation.

Atlanta, GA, Georgia State University: Working Paper

Keil, M., R. Mixon, et al. (1995). "Understanding Runaway Information Technology Projects: Results from an

International Research Program Based on Escalation Theory." Journal of Management Information Systems

11 (3): 65-85.

Kiesler, C. A. (1971). The Psychology of Commitment: Experiments Linking Behavior to Belief. New York,

Academic Press.

Markus, M. L. and M. Keil (1994). "If We Build It, They Will Come: Designing Information Systems That

People Want to Use." Sloan Management Review 34 (34): 11-25.

Nathanson, S., J. Brockner, et al. (1982). "Toward the Reduction of Entrapment." Journal of Applied Social

Psychology 12 (3): 193-208.

Patton, M. Q. (1990). Qualitative