Effects of Project Risk Management on Project Success

"Dialogue on Risk - Effects of Project Risk Management on Project Success" is the title of the PhD thesis that can be downloaded from this website.

Dialogue on Risk presents the results from research on the influence of project risk management on the success of IT projects, in particular ERP implementation projects.

Dialogue on Risk uses case studies, experiments and a study of literature in order to create a comprehensive overview of the relation between risk management and project success.

Dialogue on Risk has been written by Karel de Bakker PMP, owner of deB Project & Risk. 

Thesis defense: 9 June 2011 University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dialogue on Risk can be downloaded: here (1.5 Mb pdf)

de Bakker, K., Boonstra, A. & Wortmann, H. (2010). Does Risk Management Contribute to IT Project Success? A Meta Analysis of Empirical Evidence. International Journal of Project Management, 28(5), 493-503. (PhD thesis, chapter 2) Download 

de Bakker, K., Boonstra, A. & Wortmann, H. (2011). Risk Management Affecting IS/IT Project Success Through Communicative Action. Project Management Journal, 42(3), 75-90.  (PhD thesis, chapter 3) Download

de Bakker, K. & Somani, S. (2006). Establishing Cultural Influences on Risk Management. In: Proceedings of PMI EMEA Conference, Madrid, Spain. (Sorry, no download) 

de Bakker, K., Stewart, W. & Sheremeta, P. (2002). Risk Management Planning - How Much is Good Enough? In: Proceedings of the 5th European Project Management Conference, PMI, Cannes, France. Download

de Bakker, K. & de Roode, E. (2001). Risk Driven Project Management in Political Environments. In: Proceedings of the 4th European Project Management Conference, PMI, London, United Kingdom. Download

de Bakker, K. & Wassink, G. (1991). Development, implementation and impact of the TESSEC expertsystem. In: Proceedings of the European Group of Public Administration, The Hague, The Netherlands. (Sorry, no download)