No project is an island: linking projects to history and context
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Theories on project management are dominated by a perspective on singular projects, treating the unit of analyze as a lonely phenomenon. The way structures and procedures employed in a project have to be understood in relation to previous and simultaneous courses of activity, to future plans, and to standard operating procedures, tradition, and the norms of its surroundings, is analyzed.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 2003
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Projects and firms as discordant complements: organizational learning in the Munich software ecology
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The relation between the functional interplay between the projects and organizational learning in Munich software cluster is studied. The factors that influence process improvement, failure eradication and knowledge accumulation are observed.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 2004
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Innovation in project-based firms: the context dependency of success factors
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A study examines the role of engineering, construction companies, etc. in taking up client-specific projects for innovations.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 2006
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