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Article: Doing strategy in project-based organizations: Actors and patterns of action
Title | Doing strategy in project-based organizations: Actors and patterns of action |
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Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman |
Citation | International Journal of Project Management, 2018, v. 36 n. 6, p. 889-898 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In the project management literature, projects have often been conceptualized as mere implementation sites of organizational strategy. However, such rationalization seldom draws on empirical evidence of strategy as it unfolds at the micro-level and at the interfaces between projects and the organization. Drawing on rich case-study data, this article explores strategy as-it-is-practiced in a large project-based organization. Using a Strategy-as-Practice lens to identify key patterns of strategizing actions, we found that project mind-sets and skill-sets afforded project actors legitimacy to act as strategists on all organizational levels. Project actualities therefore broadly shape strategy in the organization, and play a much larger role in organizational strategizing than typically portrayed in the literature. The findings are used to suggest new perspectives regarding who are strategists and what strategy is in project-based organizations, and outline new directions for a revitalized research agenda on strategy in the project-management field. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/261859 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 7.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.039 |
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dc.contributor.author | Löwstedt, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Räisänen, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leiringer, RTF | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-28T04:49:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-28T04:49:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Project Management, 2018, v. 36 n. 6, p. 889-898 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0263-7863 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/261859 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In the project management literature, projects have often been conceptualized as mere implementation sites of organizational strategy. However, such rationalization seldom draws on empirical evidence of strategy as it unfolds at the micro-level and at the interfaces between projects and the organization. Drawing on rich case-study data, this article explores strategy as-it-is-practiced in a large project-based organization. Using a Strategy-as-Practice lens to identify key patterns of strategizing actions, we found that project mind-sets and skill-sets afforded project actors legitimacy to act as strategists on all organizational levels. Project actualities therefore broadly shape strategy in the organization, and play a much larger role in organizational strategizing than typically portrayed in the literature. The findings are used to suggest new perspectives regarding who are strategists and what strategy is in project-based organizations, and outline new directions for a revitalized research agenda on strategy in the project-management field. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Project Management | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.title | Doing strategy in project-based organizations: Actors and patterns of action | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Leiringer, RTF: roine.leiringer@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Leiringer, RTF=rp01592 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.05.002 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85047625572 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 293428 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 36 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 6 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 889 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 898 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000438480100005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |