The Effect of Leadership and Teamwork on ISD Project Success

ABSTRACTThis study aims to analyze how the quality of leadership and teamwork influences project success in information systems development (ISD). The proposed research model endeavors to substantiate the heterogeneity of project success in the public and private sectors to assist project managers. We surveyed experienced Korean project managers in both the public and private sectors and applied a partial least squares method to the data to empirically prove our hypotheses. According to the results, the network governance, entrepreneur, and transactional leadership styles have a significant and positive influence on teamwork quality, while teamwork is a mediator that determines an ISD project’s success. The comparative analysis of the public and private sectors showed that transactional and entrepreneurial leadership styles are efficient in ISD projects in the public sector, while transformational and network governance leadership styles are more appropriate in the private sector.