This research focuses on information technology (IT) project managers' growth mindset concerning IT project management (PM) ability and investigates how such a mindset can promote escalation of commitment to a troubled IT project. Specifically, we suggest that the growth mindset of IT PM ability promotes prospective achievement motivation and can lead IT project managers to escalate their commitment to an IT project despite negative feedback suggesting that the project may not be completed successfully. Through a series of three experiments with 351 IT project managers, we obtained consistent support for our hypotheses suggesting that the growth mindset of IT PM ability promotes IT project escalation and this effect is partially mediated by anticipated regret about project failure and anticipated likelihood of project success. In addition, in the three experiments we found that when the project involves an unfamiliar technology the indirect effect of the growth mindset of IT PM ability through anticipated likelihood of project success is stronger than when the project involves a familiar technology.

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当成长心态可能适得其反并导致对陷入困境的信息技术项目的承诺升级时

本研究侧重于信息技术 (IT) 项目经理在 IT 项目管理 (PM) 能力方面的成长心态，并调查这种心态如何促进对陷入困境的 IT 项目的承诺升级。具体而言，我们建议 IT PM 能力的成长心态促进预期的成就动机，并可以引导 IT 项目经理提升他们对 IT 项目的承诺，尽管负面反馈表明该项目可能无法成功完成。通过对 351 名 IT 项目经理进行的一系列三个实验，我们的假设得到一致支持，即 IT PM 能力的成长心态促进 IT 项目升级，并且这种影响部分是由对项目失败的预期遗憾和项目成功的预期可能性所调节的. 此外，