Data collection
The questionnaire was administered to 753 project managers in three countries from
different regions – Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. Initial data collection involved
project managers who are members in the PMI, which supported this study in each of
these countries. Yet, recognising the danger of this type of data collection as a sole
source, the other half of questionnaires were collected from organisations selected and
personally visited by the research team. For that reason, the research team assembled
organisation names from a variety of local sources, to make sure research sample
includes organisations from different sizes, all relevant industry sectors, and with
different levels of project risk. The two groups were compared to make sure that they
both led to similar conclusions.