The local government project: A matchmaker or a troublemaker?

IF 7.5 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

International Journal of Project Management Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102674

Grete Hagebakken, Trude Høgvold Olsen, Elsa Solstad

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Several studies have focused on local government as project-supported organisations (PSOs) initiating projects aiming to solve non-routine activities, but we know less about the widespread practice of initiating projects to solve recurrent problems in daily operations. This paper reports findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study of how a project team in a Norwegian local authority navigated tensions in their efforts to solve a daily operations challenge. Our findings contribute to the recent debate about consequences of projects in PSOs. First, we argue that tensions in PSOs can be theorised as competition between co-existing institutional logics and understood in light of strategic owner capabilities. Further, we suggest that the perceived strength of tensions influences whether the project is interpreted as a matchmaker between different logics, or, at other times, as a troublemaker where the project team's interpretation of contextual complexity limits its ability to combine co-existing institutional logics.

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地方政府项目：媒人还是麻烦制造者？

一些研究关注地方政府作为项目支持组织（pso）发起旨在解决非常规活动的项目，但我们对发起项目以解决日常运营中反复出现的问题的广泛实践知之甚少。本文报告了一项定性、纵向研究的结果，研究了挪威地方当局的一个项目团队如何在努力解决日常运营挑战的过程中应对紧张局势。我们的发现有助于最近关于pso项目后果的辩论。首先，我们认为pso中的紧张关系可以理论化为共存的制度逻辑之间的竞争，并根据战略所有者能力来理解。此外，我们认为，紧张关系的感知强度会影响项目是否被解释为不同逻辑之间的中间人，或者，在其他时候，作为麻烦制造者，项目团队对上下文复杂性的解释限制了其结合共存制度逻辑的能力。

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International Journal of Project Management MANAGEMENT-

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12.30

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59 days

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