Beyond Failure and Success: A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice

IF 5.1 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Project Management Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI:10.1177/87569728241237443

Alfons van Marrewijk, Iben Stjerne, Jörg Sydow

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Abstract

This editorial scrutinizes the dichotomy of a project’s success and failure, which, in our opinion is too rigid, inflexible, and unnuanced. The aim of this special issue is to nuance this dichotomy by moving toward a process view on how imperfection is brought about in projects. We introduce and discuss five topics important for such a process view: (1) improvisation, (2) temporality, (3) power and politics, (4) transition, and (5) intentionality. We argue that a holistic, processual view of imperfections premises emergence and continuous learning and judgments of the project both in and over time. All five articles in this special issue deal with at least one of the discussed themes of our proposed process view on imperfect projects.

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超越失败与成功：从过程角度看不完美项目的常见做法

这篇社论对项目成功与失败的二分法进行了审视，在我们看来，这种方法过于僵化、缺乏灵活性，而且不平衡。本特刊的目的是通过从过程的角度来审视项目中的不完美是如何产生的，从而对这种二分法进行细微的调整。我们介绍并讨论了对这种过程观非常重要的五个主题：(1) 即兴；(2) 时间性；(3) 权力与政治；(4) 过渡；(5) 意向性。我们认为，从整体和过程的角度来看待不完善之处，可以为项目的出现、持续学习和判断提供前提，而且随着时间的推移也是如此。本特刊中的所有五篇文章都至少涉及了我们提出的不完美项目过程观中的一个讨论主题。

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Project Management Journal MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

9.30

自引率

14.00%

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期刊介绍： Project Management Journal (PMJ) is the academic and research journal of the Project Management Institute and features state-of-the-art research, techniques, theories, and applications in project management. Projects represent a growing population of human activity in large, small, private, and public organizations. Projects are used to execute and sustain today's organizational activities. They play a fundamental role as the engine of tomorrow's innovation, value creation, and strategic change. However, projects often fail to deliver their promise. PMJ addresses these multiple challenges and opportunities by encouraging the development and application of novel theories, concepts, frameworks, research methods, and designs. PMJ embraces contributions both from within and beyond project management to augment and transform theory and practice.