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Breaking out of the straitjacket of project research: in search of contribution
Mattias Jacobsson, Anders SöderholmThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate how a different and partly new strategy is needed in order to make research on projects relevant and interesting to a wider scientific…
Providing structural openness to connect with context: Seeing the project entity as a human activity system and social process
Jocelyn Small, Derek WalkerThe purpose of this paper is to emphasise projects as being part of a social process. It aims to move away from the traditional views that lay emphases on linear and predictable…
Whole of enterprise portfolio management: A case study of NSW Government and Sydney Water Corporation
Michael Young, Jill Owen, James ConnorThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that there is not just a single project portfolio operating within an organisation, but instead there are multiple portfolios.
The social reality of organisational project management at the interface between networks and hierarchy
Monique AubryToday's organisations still face the duality of organising for both innovation and projects through organic structures while at the same time maintaining stability within their…
Contracted ERP projects: Sequential progress, mutual learning, relationships, control and conflicts
Annika Andersson, Timothy L. WilsonThe purpose of this paper is to describe the sequential nature that enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects tend to take and to describe how the buyer typically behaves…
Supply chain sustainability: a relationship management approach
Yan Ki Fiona Cheung, Steve RowlinsonThe purpose of this paper is to examine, by means of case studies, the mechanisms by which relationships can be managed and by which communication and cooperation can be enhanced…
Mapping project dialogues using IBIS: a case study and some reflections
Kailash AwatiThe purpose of this practice note is to describe the use of the issue‐based information system (IBIS) notation to map dialogues that occur in project meetings.
Exploring infrastructure procurement by Australian state governments
Warren J. Staples, John F. DalrympleThe purpose of this paper is to report on a research thesis that explores how Australian state government agencies procure infrastructure projects and the extent to which they…
On a new philosophy of project management: An investigation into the prevalence of modern project management by means of an evolutionary framework
Stephen Jonathan WhittyThe purpose of this paper is to present an overview of a completed doctoral thesis that focuses on the application of evolutionary theory to various aspects of project management.
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1753-8378Online date, start – end:
2008Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Nathalie Drouin