Extant research on the control of IS development projects is largely oriented around control choices and enactments from the perspective of managers, thereby neglecting employees’ legitimacy perceptions. Little is known about how such perceptions affect employees’ intentions to comply with controls. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a factorial survey with 258 IS developers nested in 19 organizations. Our multilevel analysis shows that all four considered legitimacy dimensions are primarily a function of control mode and style, and to a lesser extent of control degree. Moreover, legitimacy operating on fairness and autonomy is an important lever for increasing compliance intentions.

现有的关于信息系统开发项目控制的研究主要是从管理者的角度围绕控制选择和制定，从而忽视了员工的合法性认知。人们对这种看法如何影响员工遵守控制的意图知之甚少。为了解决这个缺点，我们对嵌套在 19 个组织中的 258 名 IS 开发人员进行了一项因子调查。我们的多层次分析表明，所有四个考虑的合法性维度主要是控制模式和风格的函数，在较小程度上是控制程度的函数。此外，以公平和自治为基础的合法性是增加合规意图的重要杠杆。