We find that for internal and outsourced IT
projects, the social subsystem and project management risks are
negatively associated with system performance. However, techni-
cal subsystem risk has a negative effect on performance only in
internal projects.On the one hand, social subsystemrisk influences
system performance to a greater degree in outsourced projects than
in internal projects, whereas technical subsystem risk has greater
impact on performance in internal projects than in outsourced
projects. Moreover, project management risk was not found to