2.1. Project Governance Configurations as Decision Rights in Systems Development
A central element of governance is decision rights (Anand and Mendelson 1997, Nault 1998), which are defined as decision-making authority (Dessein 2002, Jensen and Meckling 1992). Building on Sambamurthy and Zmud (1999) conceptualization of IT governance, project governance configurations can be conceptualized in terms of interdepartmental (IT/client) centralization/decentralization of the key classes of project decision rights.