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Several studies have been carried out to better understand the main causes for project failures and how to tackle them in the information technology (IT) field, and project risk management (PRM) has been recognized as a critical success factor to support the achievement of project success. Despite the known benefits of PRM, its effective usage have been discussed in studies looking for the reasons due to project managers disengagement from adopting best practices of PRM through the overall project life cycle. The main objective of this work was to analysis how PRM influences project success in IT projects. Differently from other studies, this one took into consideration many dimensions of the both constructs PRM and project success. A quantitative approach was carried-out to gather data from 156 practitioners worldwide from several countries and companies. This study contributed to theory by showing that PRM influences positively the project success, but it occurs only for two out of five dimensions of PRM, namely risk management culture and risk response planning, in relation to four out of five dimensions of project success, namely project efficiency, impact on the customer, impact on the project team and business success.
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