Concern for project failures and successes have posed a controversial and much debated topic amongst scholars and practitioners alike. IT projects are no exceptions and they too suffer from a high rate of failure. This research aims to explore the reasons why certain IT projects succeed). Besides its academic importance, the research intends to assess the implications for successful implementation of current and future IT projects. The review of the extant literature reveals the enormity of the challenges involved in minimising or avoiding project failures. Present work is contextualizing these issues in a large national organisation with branches throughout the KSA. The Saudi Arabia constitutes the case study for this research. Qualitative methodology was adopted to generate and collect adequate and relevant data. Main instruments were; Semi-structured interviews involving senior managers in five geographical areas who were involved in the management of the IT projects and selected project documents. Thematic analysis was used and led to emergence of seven main ‘themes’, 19 major ‘issues’, and the construction of the first time generic model for success of IT projects. The core issues identified in the model are: Quality, Time and Cost at three levels; individual, organisation and environment with specific order of importance. The implications of the findings for the theory and practice have been identified. It is also recommended that there is a need for further research into individual and contextual factors that influence both managers as well as the circumstances under which IT projects are implemented. / Ministry of Education, KSA

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In the decades following World War II, the Louisiana National Guard evolved due to world, national, and local events. In response to the United States’ Cold War policies to contain Communism, the Guard expanded, professionalized, and was occasionally called to federal service. In conjunction with Cold War fears of external attack and internal subversion, a civil defense mission brought coordination between federal, state and local response agencies. Despite the lack of large scale war service or an attack on the U.S. homeland , the skills and responsibilities acquired by the Louisiana Guard during this time period resulted in an enhanced ability to respond to Louisiana’s biggest practical threat, i.e. natural disasters.

Today, the strength of the National Rifle Association (NRA) is understood by the general public and many scholars to be dependent on the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the right of individuals to own firearms. This dissertation challenges that understanding by focusing on three organizations, the NRA, the National Guard and the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice (NBPRP). While each organization appears in today's world to be distinct and independent, this dissertation reveals how they garnered strength from a symbiotic relationship. The NRA was founded in 1871, originally as a marksmanship organization. The National Guard, which grew from the nation's militia, was formally established in the early twentieth century. The NBPRP was a small organization that was established in 1903 within the War Department at the encouragement of the NRA. Following passage in 1903 of legislation bringing state militia units under federal control, the newly formed National Guard became dependent on the NRA, which in turn leveraged that dependence to create a nationwide grassroots organization. The NBPRP was headed by the Assistant Secretary of War until 1916 when the position of the Director of Civilian Marksmanship was created, to be held by a U.S. Army or U.S. Marine Corps officer. The NRA acted as the surrogate of the NBPRB outside of the halls of government. At the same time, the NBRPB provided the NRA with a voice within those same halls that aided in the development of federal policy and budget positions related to firearms acquisition, competition, and training. The purpose of this dissertation is to reveal how the NRA was able to employ these two organizations to develop an exceptionally powerful grassroots organization that today is recognized as one of the most powerful special interest groups in America. Understanding how this powerful organization grew offers one perspective of how the bureaucracy that has been developed to support America's federal system of government is uniquely susceptible to special interest influence.

Thesis (M. of Military Art and Science)--U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2007. / The original document contains color images. Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on May 27, 2008).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-06-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:25:38Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 saldanha_fhd_me_fran.pdf: 957255 bytes, checksum: 94db9988f7a759e091e975acdda5b57e (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Este trabalho tem como objeto de análise os oficiais da Guarda Nacional no atual Estado de Minas Gerais, em especial na cidade de Mariana. A Guarda Nacional foi uma milícia criada pelos liberais durante a Regência e participou ativamente da vida institucional do Brasil no processo de formação do Estado Nacional no oitocentos. Neste sentido, pretendemos evidenciar o sistema eletivo para o oficialato da milícia cívica como um mecanismo de teste do prestígio social dos oficiais civis, no período entre 1831 e 1850, numa tentativa de esmiuçar o microcosmo social dos indivíduos arregimentados no afã do espírito de associação territorial do Império e de legitimidade do Estado / This paper broaches the National Guard’s officers in the present State of Minas Gerais in the special city of Mariana. The National Guard was a militia created by liberals during the Regency and participated actively in the institutional life of Brazil in the National State’s formation process in eighteen hundred. So, this paper intends to show the officers’s election of civic militia as a test mechanism of officers’s social prestige, in the period between 1831 and 1850, trying to research about the social microcosmos of individuals enlisted in association spirit of Empire territory and State’s legitimacy

Across deployment cycles, individuals negotiate family roles to accommodate the absence then re-entry of service members. There is scant empirical evidence about the processes through which roles are reorganized. Guided by the family resilience framework (Walsh, 2016) and the model of military marriage (Karney & Crown, 2007), I hypothesized that communication would be a mechanism through which couples negotiated roles during reintegration. Couple communication was conceptualized as occurring over two distinct but related temporal rhythms: established communication patterns and daily communication strategies. I expected that couples’ Time 1 (T1) established communication patterns (problem solving and withdrawal) would predict role negotiations at Time 3 (T3), and that these associations would be mediated by daily communication strategies at Time 2 (T2). 54 heterosexual National Guard couples were interviewed at three times across eight months after service members’ return from deployment. T1 and T3 were in-person interviews and measured participants’ established patterns of family life, including established communication patterns and ease in role negotiations. T2 was a four-day data “burst” and captured couples’ daily behaviors such as competence with daily communication strategies. Path analyses indicated that T1 problem solving (an established pattern) predicted service members’ more competent T2 daily communication and easier T3 role negotiations. While no indirect associations emerged for either partner, significant others’ T2 more competent daily communication strategies predicted easier T3 role negotiations for both partners. Results suggest that problem solving and competent daily communication strategies contribute to resilient family functioning during reintegration. This study highlights the viability and importance of adopting multiple temporal rhythms to examine processes across couple transitions.

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Este estudo da trajetória histórica dos militares na cidade de Crato compara com a atuação dos militares da capital Pernambucana, seja nas tropas de milícias, e ordenanças ou na Guarda Nacional, durante o período de 1718 a 1870. Naquele contexto, diversos sistemas militares nacionais e regionais se consolidaram com as Patentes e Registros de Patentes durante esse período de tropas da região do Cariri e da cidade de Crato. Por meio do diálogo com a historiografia relacionada ao tema, buscou-se perceber o funcionamento e a influência dos militares pernambucanos nos movimentos revolucionários da cidade de Crato, da região Nordeste, e como se deu essa organização da hierarquia militar. Analisa-se a participação efetiva da Igreja nos assuntos do Estado. Alguns eventos políticos, econômicos e sociais motivaram a participação da Família Alencar nas revoluções de 1817-1824 e, dessa forma, apresenta-se a Lei orgânica de 1817, a República e as prisões dos alancares na Bahia. Conclui-se com a atuação dos militares no período de 1851 e 1900, e o recrutamento das tropas militares e a organização militar e policial de Crato em 1870. A pesquisa aqui apresentada deteve-se em fontes documentais produzidas nas Cartas Régias, no arquivo estadual do Ceará, literatura regional, local, foram utilizados para o estudo das duas realidades. A investigação demonstrou que os militares foram responsáveis diretos pela implantação do processo civilizador da cidade, confirmando assim, as influências que tiveram na sociedade militar e civil da cidade de Crato. / In this study of the historical trajectory of "military" in the city of Crato compared with the performance of "military" is the capital of Pernambuco militia troops, and ordinances or in the National Guard during the period from 1718 until the late 1870s that context in several national military systems, and regional were consolidated with the Patent and Registration of Patents during that troops Cariri and the city of Crato. Through dialogue with the historiography related to the topic, we sought to understand the functioning and the influence of the military Pernambucans revolutionary movements in the city of Crato in the Northeast region, and how did this organization of the military hierarchy, and analyze the effective participation of church in state affairs. We found some political, economic and social events that motivated the participation of family Alencar in the revolutions of 1817-1824 and thus present the "Organic Act of 1817," the Republic and the arrests of "alencares" in Bahia. It concludes with the role of the military in the period 1851 and 1900, and the recruitment of troops and military and police organization of Crato in 1870 The research presented here, stopped in documentary sources produced in the Royal Letters, state file Ceará, regional literature, local, were used for the study of the two realities. Research has shown that the military was directly responsible for the implementation of the civilizing process of the city, thereby confirming the influences they have had on military and civil society of the city of Crato.

This study first offers a political, social, and economic overview of Texas during the first two decades of the twentieth century, including reaction in the Lone Star state to the declaration of war against Germany in April, 1917; the fear of saboteurs and foreign-born citizens; and the debate on raising a wartime army through a draft or by volunteerism. Then, focusing in-depth on northwest Texas, the study examines the Texas National Guard unit recruited there, the Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment. Using primarily the selective service registration cards of a sample of 1,096 members of the regiment, this study presents a portrait of the officers and enlisted soldiers of the Seventh Texas based on age, occupation, marital status, dependents and other criteria, something that has not been done in studies of World War I soldiers. Next, the regiment's training at Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, Texas, is described, including the combining of the Seventh Texas with the First Oklahoma Infantry to form the 142nd Infantry Regiment of the Thirty-Sixth Division. After traveling to France and undergoing nearly two months of training, the regiment was assigned to the French Fourth Army in the Champagne region and went into combat for the first time. The study examines the combat experiences of these soldiers from northwest Texas and how they described and expressed their experiences to their families and friends after the armistice of November 11, 1918. The study concludes with an examination of how the local communities of northwest Texas celebrated the armistice, and how they welcomed home their "soldier boys" in the summer of 1919. This study also charts the changing nature of the Armistice Day celebrations and veteran reunions in Texas as time passed, as well as the later lives of some of the officers and men who served with the regiment.