The theoretical field of project management (PM) can be described as a set of models and techniques for the planning and control of complex undertakings. The three main shortcomings of PM research and theory are identified as: (1) PM is seen as a general theory and a theoretical field in its own...

In this chapter, I want to raise the following concern: at a time when project management research could actually start to inform the developments of organization theory, the field instead is withdrawing, 'getting carried away', promoting the project form rather than making it subject to...

In this article we describe a study of boundary-crossing individuals (individuals who change organisation frequently) and the way they construct identities through interaction and self-reflexion. It is argued from a social constructionist perspective that studies of the way individual identities...