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Cultural Characteristics and Their Connection to Increased Risk of Software Project Failure

机译：文化特征及其与软件项目失败风险增加的关系

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Offshoring software projects have been documented to increase the risk of project failure. In particular, the cultural differences between software client and provider countries are believed to increase the risk of project failure. We analyze a large data set of small software projects with providers and clients from various countries. For each provider and client country, and each combination of provider and client country, we calculate the project failure rate. We use Hofstede’s culture dimensions power distance, individualism, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance together with Hall’s communication style to measure cultural characteristics and differences. We found a statistically significant increase in failure rate with increased difference in the provider and client country’s communication style, but no connection between cultural differences and project failure rate using Hofstede’s cultural characteristics. Provider countries, and in particular, client countries with a low-context communication culture had lower proportions of project failures than countries with high-context cultures. A decrease in power distance and increase in individualism were both connected with a decrease in project failure rate. In total, the cultural differences between countries seem to matter less than cultural characteristics of the countries. In particular, some of the cultural characteristics of the client country were strongly connected with project failure rates. Software offshoring clients may benefit from an awareness of the importance of their role in avoiding project failures and consider adopting the cultural characteristics of the most successful client offshoring countries. They may also benefit from selecting software providers from low-context cultures.
机译：已记录离岸软件项目，以增加项目失败的风险。特别是，据信软件客户与提供者国家/地区之间的文化差异会增加项目失败的风险。我们与来自不同国家的提供商和客户一起分析小型软件项目的大型数据集。对于每个提供者和客户国家，以及提供者和客户国家的每种组合，我们计算项目失败率。我们使用霍夫斯泰德的文化维度，距离，个人主义，阳刚之气和避免不确定性，以及霍尔的沟通方式来衡量文化特征和差异。我们发现，由于提供商和客户所在国家/地区的沟通方式差异增加，失败率在统计上有显着提高，但是使用霍夫斯泰德的文化特征，文化差异和项目失败率之间没有联系。提供者国家，特别是具有低上下文通信文化的客户国家，项目失败的比例要低于具有高上下文文化的国家。权力距离的减少和个人主义的提高都与项目失败率的降低有关。总体而言，国家之间的文化差异似乎没有国家的文化特征重要。特别是，客户国的某些文化特征与项目失败率密切相关。软件离岸客户可以从对避免项目失败的重要性的认识中受益，并考虑采用最成功的客户离岸国家的文化特征。他们还可以从低语境文化中选择软件提供商，从而从中受益。

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