How do organizations learn lessons from projects—And do they?

T Williams - IEEE Transactions on engineering management, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need to learn from one project to the next is clearly of vital importance, but is often
neglected. Furthermore, there are fundamental issues within projects that inhibit such …

Ontological shift or ontological drift? Reality claims, epistemological frameworks, and theory generation in organization studies

M Thompson - Academy of Management Review, 2011 - journals.aom.org
Minor shifts in emphasis between the process and entitative dimensions of management
constructs can be an effective method of theory generation. However, such shifts require …

Managing open incremental process innovation: absorptive capacity and distributed learning

PL Robertson, GL Casali, D Jacobson - Research policy, 2012 - Elsevier
In this conceptual article, we extend earlier work on Open Innovation and Absorptive
Capacity. We suggest that the literature on Absorptive Capacity does not place sufficient …

[图书][B] Tools for complex projects

K Remington, J Pollack - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Traditional project management approaches assume that project contexts are unchanging
and key factors, though complicated, are reducible to unambiguous elements for …

A bibliometric view on the use of contingency theory in project management research

B Hanisch, A Wald - Project Management Journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Contingency theory has influenced organization theory since the 1950s. Project
management research has only recently started to consider context factors. In this area …

A model of project knowledge management

S Gasik - Project Management Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge is the most important resource needed for project management. The
aim of this article is to present a full, consistent model of project knowledge management …

The role of online and offline features in sustaining virtual communities: an empirical study

HF Lin - Internet Research, 2007 - emerald.com
Purpose–By expanding the technology acceptance model, the purpose of this paper is to
provide a research model to examine the impact of online (information quality, system …

Determinants of success for online communities: an empirical study

HF Lin, GG Lee - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Although online communities can significantly facilitate collaboration among Internet users,
the determinants of success of online communities have seldom been studied empirically …

The role of absorptive capacity in the adoption of Smart Manufacturing

F Arcidiacono, A Ancarani, C Di Mauro… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Smart Manufacturing (SM) lies at the core of Industry 4.0. Operations management
research has identified several factors influencing firms' ability to adopt SM. However, a …

Managing knowledge and learning in IT projects: A conceptual framework and guidelines for practice

BH Reich - Project management journal, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a framework identifying the key areas within IT projects where
knowledge-based risks occur. These risks include a failure to learn from past projects …