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some commonly held views. The research shows that the use of risk management practices and tools is negatively related to … empirical investigation of actual risk practices and their contextual variability can help better understand risk management …. Originality/value – The results confirm some well‐known assumptions about practices, but at the same time produced unexpected …
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instrumental towards the interpretative, focusing on daily work life, practices, power, ambiguity and sense making in project … organizations. Such an interpretative perspective helps to better understand practices of collaboration in complex mega projects … daily work life, the authors chose an in‐depth single case study. Practices of collaboration have been studied during a one …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how practices creating knowing can be … investigated through a practice approach. Findings – In transnational project work, three knowing practices are identified … – networking, doing, and sorting – and three practices of creating new knowing – finding, learning, and probing. Research …
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start-up which includes start-up practices and involved roles. The results indicate that project start-up is an integral and …
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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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Purpose – Previous literature on project strategy has adopted the narrow view that a project is to be conducted under the governance of a single strong sponsor or parent organization. The purpose of this study is to provide a critical analysis on prior project management (PM) literature...
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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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