Damian Hodgson, Svetlana Cicmil

Making Projects Critical

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Making Projects Critical is an edited collection contributed by a range of international scholars linking the area of project management with critical management perspectives. Challenging recent debates on inherent problems in project management, the text considers project management within a wider organizational and societal context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: Herbst 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781403940858
• ISBN-10: 1403940851
• Artikelnr.: 20879631

Autorenporträt

DAMIAN HODGSON is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Analysis and HRM at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

SVETLANA CICMIL is a Senior Lecturer in Project Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK, where she also acts as Research Unit Director within the School of Operations and Information Management.

Inhaltsangabe

Making Projects Critical: An Introduction; S.Cicmil & D.Hodgson.- Are Projects Real?; S.Cicmil & D.Hodgson.- From Project Ontologies to Communities of Virtue; C.Linehan & D.Kavanagh.- Project Management, Organisational Change and Learning; M.Bresnen.- Problematizing Project Management; J.L.Thomas .- Projects and Prisons; M.Lindgren & J.Packendorff.- The Contested Object: On Projects as Emergent Space; M.O.Nocker.- An Actor Network Theory Perspective on IT Projects; A.Linde & H.Linderoth.- Reorganisation Projects and Five Uncertainties; E.Molloy & R.Whittington.- A Tale of an Evolving Project; C.Smith.- Understanding Power in Project Settings; N.Marshall.- The Management of Projects in the Construction Industry; S.D.Green.- Managing Projects in Network Contexts; J.Sydow.- Making the Future Perfect: Constructing the Olympic Dream; S.R.Clegg, T.S.Pitsis, M.Marosszeky & T.Rura-Polley.- Conflicting Rhetorical Positions on Trust and Commitment; J.Sillince, C.Harvey & G.Harindranath.- Sensemaking as a Process within Complex Projects; C.Ivory, N.Alderman, I.McLoughlin & R.Vaughan.- Making the Management of Projects Critical; P.W.G.Morris.