A routine dynamics lens on the stability-change dilemma in project-based organizations

LE Bygballe, A Swärd… - Project management …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
A central issue in project-based organizations (PBOs) is how to balance the need for flexibly
responding to changing customer demands and creating consistent performance in the …

HRM operational models and practices to enable strategic agility in PBOs: Managing paradoxical tensions

A Ambituuni, F Azizsafaei, A Keegan - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
When project-based organizations (PBOs) pursue strategic agility, they develop increased
adaptation capabilities such as improvisation, fluidity and flexibility. However, these …

Exploring the dynamics of project management office and portfolio management co-evolution: A routine lens

C Bredillet, S Tywoniak, M Tootoonchy - International journal of project …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a recurrent topic of organizational project management (OPM)
research: Project Management Offices (PMOs) are perceived to be instrumental in …

Project-based temporary organizing and routine dynamics

E Cacciatori, A Prencipe - 2021 - openaccess.city.ac.uk
Projects are forms of organizing that have become increasingly common in the past
decades. The ad-hoc and temporary nature of projects seemingly poses significant …

Organizational agility through project portfolio management

CP Killen - Portfolio management: a strategic approach, 2015 - books.google.com
In dynamic environments, organizational agility is essential for survival; organizations must
be able to adapt to change in order to succeed. In project-based organizations, a dynamic …

The project-based firm: A theoretical framework for building dynamic capabilities

V Hermano, N Martín-Cruz - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The problem of achieving individual project performance has been replaced by the problem
of achieving organizational goals through project performance. Only project-based firms …

Product development tensions: Exploring contrasting styles of project management

MW Lewis, MA Welsh, GE Dehler… - … of management journal, 2002 - journals.aom.org
Successful product development requires managing tensions—coping with fluctuating
contingencies to foster innovation and efficiency. To investigate this challenge, we explored …

A configurational explanation for performance management systems' design in project-based organizations

MMG De Rooij, M Janowicz-Panjaitan… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigates what configurations of organization-level contingencies explain
different performance management system (PMS) designs in project-based organizations …

Mechanisms of isomorphism in project-based organizations

M Miterev, M Engwall… - Project Management …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article challenges the dominant assumption of goal rationality behind temporary
organizations' design in project-based organizations (PBOs). While extant literature posits …

The role of project managers as improvement agents in project-based organizations

E Sundqvist - Project management journal, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose that the project manager is implicitly expected to participate in and contribute to
continuous improvement in project-based organizations (PBOs). This article explores how …