For example, using the data from 507 software project
managers, Wallace et al. (2004) examine the impact of social
subsystem risk, technical subsystem risk, and project-management
risk on project performance using the structural-equations
modeling technique. Their results show that social-subsystem
risk significantly affects technical-subsystem risk, which, in turn,
influences project-management risk, and ultimately, project
performance. Hoang and Rothaermel (2005) use binary logistic
analysis to examine the performance of 158 joint research and
development (R&D) projects in 43 pharmaceutical firms; they find
that the general alliance experience of biotechnology partners, but