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and agencies. The causes of the mismatch between actual and demonstrated results failure were studied through stakeholder … posed by differing interests and different perceptions in reporting stakeholder activities, outputs and outcomes, were … peacebuilding project in Sri Lanka, which the author has previously studied. A stakeholder role and perception analysis was used to …
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stakeholder, thereby removing confusion surrounding the use of this term from the general and project management arenas. Design … stakeholder are in terms of an interest and activity. This avoids all extensions of meaning introduced by defining particular … stakeholders of a firm. These definitions are carried forward into a mapping of the stakeholder locus of interest on an activity …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the philosophy of the journal and present a summary of its content and how the various papers link to the journal's philosophy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a limited literature review to establish the journal's philosophy and...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide of a review of the theory and models underlying project management (PM) research degrees that encourage reflective learning. Design/methodology/approach – Review of the literature and reflection on the practice of being actively involved in...
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's stakeholder environment. Based on these two determinants, we characterize four types of alternative positions that projects can … have in their context: parent's subordinate and autonomous projects that occur in a stakeholder environment that is not … complex, and projects with weak and autonomous positions in a complex stakeholder environment. The developed project strategy …
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Purpose – The paper seeks to establish a critical role for leaders in guiding projects to higher levels of effectiveness. This role centers on using the thinking capacities associated with systems thinking, knowledge processing, action learning, and pragmatism. It is also to design systems to...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to address the risks for a main contractor firm's project business that arise from subcontractors' inter‐organizational relationships in complex‐ and dynamic‐project networks. Design/methodology/approach – Existing project risk management research neglects...
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Purpose – The success rate of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations is not high in view of the sums invested by organisations in these applications. It has often been indicated that a combination of inadequate preparedness and inappropriate project management have been responsible...
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series of case studies where a project management tool for managing stakeholder relationships was tested and refined … potential impact. This tool then helped the studied project delivery teams to develop stakeholder engagement strategies. While … organisations. In observing how it is being used and can be used, it is suggested that over time a useful data base of stakeholder …
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Purpose – This paper is a summary of a successfully defended doctoral dissertation. The purpose of this paper is to place this research in context to emerging areas of project management and service science, management and engineering and to encourage others to embark on further research...
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