Can .idea run-configuration cache differences cause local success but production failure in CLion?

The goal is to determine whether differences in CLion's cached run-configuration files can explain a configuration that runs successfully on a developer workstation but aborts in production.

CLion stores run configurations in the .idea directory, which version control may exclude or synchronize inconsistently. Production checkouts can therefore lack the cached configuration, use different JVM arguments or plugin versions, or resolve relative paths against a working directory that differs from the local IDE setting. The unresolved behavior is whether these .idea and environment differences are sufficient to cause the production failure, or whether another factor is responsible.

Does a missing or divergent .idea run configuration directly change the execution environment in production? Can relative paths in a run configuration resolve differently when the IDE-defined working directory does not match the production directory? Which factor—cached configuration, JVM arguments, plugin versions, or working directory—is most likely to cause the discrepancy?