Impact of Leadership Styles on Project Success – The Case of a Multinational Company

Literature on project success mainly focused on identifying and analyzing success criteria and critical success factors. Success criteria are used for evaluating the success of a project and critical success factors are those factors which in‐ crease the potential for achieving project success. However, the interrelationships among them were rarely analyzed, although researchers highlighted the importance of these interrelationships. The aim of the paper is to identify a leadership style, of which project managers can maximize the potential for achiev‐ ing project success. Project success is analyzed from the point of view of success criteria. This approach manages the shortcoming mentioned above, the lack of analyzing interrelationships among critical success factors and success cri‐ teria. This outcome is drawn from qualitative field research at a subsidiary of a Scandinavian‐based multinational