Imperfections-as-practice: Projects as becoming processes of imperfections

SM Xu, MLAM Bogers - Project Management Journal, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides an alternative conceptualization of a project as a series of becoming
processes of imperfections. Through a longitudinal ethnography of a Research and …

Psychological contract breach: Unraveling the dark side of business-to-business relationships

A Gillani, S Kutaula, PS Budhwar - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
While there is an increasing awareness of the importance of developing successful business-
to-business relationships, little research has explored the dark side of these relationships …

Organizational ambidexterity: A critical review and development of a project-focused definition

Y Petro, U Ojiako, T Williams… - Journal of Management in …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
The objective of this paper is to explore a project-focused understanding of contemporary
organizational ambidexterity literature. As part of this process, a taxonomical analysis of the …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of couplings and their implications in inter-organizational multi-actor research and innovation projects

S Klessova, S Engell, C Thomas - International Journal of Project …, 2022 - Elsevier
Publicly funded multi-actor research, development and innovation projects are a setting
where a network of multiple organizational actors form a temporary consortium to jointly …

The challenges of implementing temporal shifts in temporary organizations: Implications of a situated temporal view

AL Vaagaasar, T Hernes, T Dille - Project Management …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We apply a situated temporal view to reveal the acute challenge actors face in making
changes when their project moves toward its final deadline. A situated temporal view takes …

Toward a wiser projectification: Macroeconomic effects of firm-level project work

CHCA Henning, A Wald - International Journal of Project Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Several studies have investigated projectification and its effects at the firm level, but the
macroeconomic implications of project work have scarcely been considered. This paper …

Re-creating organizational routines to transition through the project life cycle: a case study of the reconstruction of London's Bank underground station

S Addyman, S Pryke, A Davies - Project management journal, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides new insights into the project life cycle by proposing an alternative
image to the predefined time boundary between life cycle stages. It makes a theoretical …

Transforming construction: heterarchical megaproject ecologies and the management of innovation

M Brunet, P Cohendet - Construction management and economics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As the digital transformation impacts many sectors of the economy, actors in the construction
industry—and more specifically in megaproject initiatives—have to adapt to new …

Modeling and analyzing factors affecting project delays using an integrated social network-fuzzy MICMAC approach

H Bashir, U Ojiako, C Mota - Engineering Management Journal, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Factors that cause project delays are directly and indirectly interrelated. Despite this, the
majority of prior studies that have been conducted to identify and rank project delay factors …

[HTML][HTML] When parallel schools of thought fail to converge: The case of cost overruns in project management

AA Chadee, XT Chadee, I Ray, A Mwasha, HH Martin - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates the conflicting and contrasting views between two prominent schools
of thought (SOT), the conventional project management empirical school and the incoming …