Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research : Translational and Transformational

Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Advances in Organization Studies -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Our Thanks -- Notes on the Contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Introduction -- Trends in Management Research -- Trends in Project Management Research -- The Sections of the Book -- Section 1: Philosophical Underpinnings of OPM Research -- Section 2: Creative and Innovative Contemporary Approaches -- Section 3: Learning Across Disciplines -- Section 4: Upcoming Approaches in OPM Research -- References -- Section 1 -- Philosophical Underpinnings of OPM Research -- Chapter 1 -- Paradigms and Perspectives in Organizational Project Management Research: Implications for Knowledge-Creation -- Abstract -- Introduction: Academic Research and the Production of Knowledge -- Research and Knowledge-Creation in Academic Inquiry -- The Purpose of Research -- The Context and History of Western Knowledge-Creation -- Contrasting World-Views: The Intellectual Roots of Western Thought -- Two Ontologies -- Epistemological Implications of Being and Becoming for Organizational Research -- An Ontology of Being and an Epistemology of Representationalism -- An Ontology of Becoming and an Epistemology of Social Constructionism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- "A" Discourse on the Non-method -- Abstract -- A Call for Perestroika -- Modes of Action (Practice) and Modes of Knowledge (Theory) -- Praxis vs. Practice Turn -- Beyond the Gap Practice-Theory: And then Comes the "PraXitioner"! -- Back to the Future -- A Difference that Makes a Difference -- Debate and Deliberations -- Project Management-as-Praxis -- Discussion of Question 2: Which Intellectual Virtues is the Knowledge Generated from and What is the Impact for Theory and Practice? -- Mediating Theory-Practice: The Role of a Praxeological Style of Reasoning and Mode of Inquiry.