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In it, we describe the findings with respect to the second topic. However, several times mention will be made of the survey which was done in order to obtain the data relevant to the first topic. (A detailed description of the survey and its results can be found in an article in the January 1972 issue of the Journal of Business, The Effect of Task Volume and Complexity upon Computer Use.) A survey of the literature on our present topic leaves the impression of a pronounced consensus among most authors that failure of computer projects is not due primarily to technical constraints but rather to the absence of a number of organizational conditions.' Most
Vanlommel et al. (Wed,) studied this question.