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The Relationship between Project Success and Project Efficiency
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Many researchers have suggested that meeting time, scope, and budget goals, sometimes called ‘project efficiency,’ is not the comprehensive measure of project success. Broader measures of success have been recommended; however, to date, nobody has determined empirically the relationship between efficiency and overall success or indeed shown whether efficiency is important at all to overall project success. Our aim in this article is to correct that omission. Through a survey of 1,386 projects we have shown that project efficiency correlates moderately strongly to overall project success (correlation of 0.6 and R 2 of 0.36). Efficiency is shown through analysis to be neither the only aspect of project success nor an aspect of project success that can be ignored.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Serrador, P., & Turner, R.
- Venue
- Project Management Journal
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-02
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 30-39
- ISSN
- 1938-9507 (ISSN-L)
- 8756-9728
- OpenAlex
- W2011693470
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 27.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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