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Project Management (Hardcover, New)
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Project Management (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
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Projects are all around us, from the research paper we are
currently working on to the major organizational changes we observe
in companies. They are a purposeful, time-limited integration of
diverse knowledge to reach a unique outcome, and therefore, useful
vehicles to manage deliberate change initiatives within and beyond
organisations, from the launch of a new product to the acquisition
of a new firm. Especially in the 2000s we have seen a rapid
expansion of project management, popularization and use of project
management across different businesses, so that project and project
management has become more and more crucial not only to
organisations but to society and economy. However, project
management is not new. The deliberate management of projects
emerged in the 1950s from the pragmatic need to improve execution
of large and complex undertakings, with high degree of novelty and
uncertainty. An umbrella of tools, techniques and procedures, such
as work breakdown structures, network plans, PERT (program
evaluation and review technique), and Gantt charts have been
developed since then. These techniques and methods typically form
the foundation of many of the textbooks and bodies of knowledge in
project management. However, today project management comprises a
broad set of topics and people have generally argued for the idea
of relabeling the entire knowledge domain to cover different levels
of analysis and topics outside the conventional and narrow
definitions of project management. This collection is a response to
such calls - although we have kept the original term 'project
management'. In that respect, it covers both the classic viewpoints
of planning structuring and success and the more recent empirical
works and theoretical developments on projects. In addition, we
present some of the broader work on the institutional context of
projects, including organising and managing project-based firms,
knowledge transfer and inter-project learning and the role of
portfolio and programme management This new four volume collection
from Routledge, edited by Joana Geraldi (Cranfield University, UK)
and Jonas Soderlund (Norwegian Business School) will capture the
emergence of project management as an academic field, and portray
the current streams of thinking in the area. Including a new
introduction and fully indexed, the volumes will provide the reader
with a solid background to the knowledge about developments of the
field and expose the reader to its key debates, theoretical and
empirical variety.
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