Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the key findings of a doctoral thesis aimed at exploring how multi-project companies reconcile order (efficiency, control, clar-ity) and chaos (creativity, trust, uncertainty, ambiguity).Methodology: The research was focused on multi-project firms...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to operations management (OM) practice contingency research by describing the complexity of projects. Complexity is recognised as a key independent (contingent) variable that impacts on many subsequent decisions in the practice of managing...

This paper reports and reflects on the discussions about the nature of the discipline of project management that took place during the 8th conference of the International Research Network of Organizing by Projects (IRNOP VIII), held in Brighton in September 2007. The discussions started with the...