The last several years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in project-based
organizations. This interest mirrors the diffusion of this organizational form across a wide …

This paper discusses why conventional project management practices lead to the failure of
publicly funded innovation deployment projects, and investigates how the use of systems …

Abstract M ason CM, C arter S. and T agg S. Invisible businesses: the characteristics of
home-based businesses in the United Kingdom, Regional Studies. Home-based businesses …

In this article, we examine how project entrepreneurs maintain and leverage long-term
project-based relationships in highly uncertain and volatile project businesses with clients …

There has recently been noted a rapid increase in research attention to projects that involve
outside partners. Our knowledge of such inter-organizational projects, however, is limited …

Project alliances offer firms an opportunity to increase innovation performance through the
flexible combination of specialized competencies across firms. Inspired by internal project …

The crucial actors of a global knowledge-based economy are multinational enterprises
(MNEs). MNEs depend on the embeddedness in an institutional framework; their competitive …

This article aims at increasing the understanding of a specific type of stakeholder, namely
governmental stakeholders who have significant influence over projects and base their …

This chapter advances the notion of projects of passion as a class of phenomena for which
profit seeking is secondary to the pursuit of a “calling.” Drawing on a comparative case …

Emerging industries are not rare elements in the economy; rather, they constitute a
permanent feature in constantly developing and changing economic environments …