Matching of Resources and the Design of Organizations for Project Management

This paper addresses a problem common to many high-technology firms. How can firms select and resource appropriate projects while balancing the needs of management as well as technologists? We argue that such problems result in social dilemmas for organizations, requiring practical institutional designs for management and resolution. We relate...

Project management that really matters: Managing the unanticipated key moments in rail related infrastructure projects

Rail related infrastructure projects, like many projects, often fail to deliver within budget and time. The root cause of most failures however is not technical, but rather, managerial. The existing scientific literature reveals that the impact of unexpected events in the project is a major contributor to these overruns. There is not, however, a...

Frozen stories: Capturing and utilizing frozen stories for teaching of project managers

Learning from projects is one of the major challenges which appears to be critical to consistent success of project-based organizations. To learn from past projects for current problem situations, knowledge and experience often has to be shared across time or space. However, while it seems to be possible to capture explicit knowledge (e.g. about...

Dealing with Dilemma’s: How Can Experiments Contribute to a More Sustainable Mobility System?

Sustainable mobility has proved to be a perennial challenge to realize. Scholars have argued that experiments could point the way forward towards sustainable mobility (cf. Loorbach, 2007, Markard and Truffer, 2008). In doing so, literature attributes a vital but complex task to those who engage in experiments. However, an important knowledge gap...

Condities voor partnering bij woningverbetering door corporaties

Dit onderzoek is specifiek gericht op de relationele samenwerkingsvorm ‘partnering’, aangezien ‘partnering’ een veelbelovende nieuwe projectbenadering is en aansluit op de wijze waarop corporaties bouwprojecten kunnen organiseren. Bij partnering wordt in een vroeg stadium van de planontwikkeling samengewerkt, hierbij worden de werkprocessen en...

Dealing with Competing Project Management Values under Uncertainty: The Case of RandstadRail

Due to the uncertainty involved in many complex infrastructure engineering projects, it is not always possible for managers to establish detailed terms of reference at the departure. Although the flexibility of ‘open’ terms of reference is often indispensible, it makes the arrival at a successful outcome much of a gamble. Complex infrastructure...