Print Email Facebook Twitter Matching of Resources and the Design of Organizations for Project Management Title Matching of Resources and the Design of Organizations for Project Management Author Cunningham, S. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2012-06-18 Abstract 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 this project resourcing problem to the well-known “problem of stable marriage.” Both material as well as knowledge-based resources are needed for project success. The formalization of the problem affords us to borrow existing theorems from the literature on matching. We conclude that the potential for social dilemmas inside the firm are fairly severe, directing institutional solutions into a relatively narrow set of choices for project selection and resourcing. We relate efficient outcomes of project resource matching to several well-known organizational forms including the functional form, the project matrix, and the project-based organization. The paper concludes that, while efficient, the project matrix organization pays a heavy cost for its compromise. Subject organizational designproject managementstable matchingresource-based perspectives of the firm To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7a413299-fc0c-4e20-915b-f7fb0f549080 Source CESUN 2012: 3rd International Engineering Systems Symposium, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 18-20 June 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s)Creative Commons BY NC ND Files PDF Cunningham2_2012.pdf 566.6 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7a413299-fc0c-4e20-915b-f7fb0f549080/datastream/OBJ/view