Outputs (57)

The logic of projects and the ideal of community development: Social good, participation and the ethics of knowing (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between project-based organizing and the initiatives labelled as “development” by critically engaging with some unchallenged assumptions in... Read More about The logic of projects and the ideal of community development: Social good, participation and the ethics of knowing.

An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management (2016)
Journal Article

The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty are used to redescribe the fundamental assumptions underpinning project management. Rather than viewing project management as merely a science, the significance and value of philosophy for projec... Read More about An existential hermeneutic philosophical approach to project management.

The politics of projects in technology-intensive work (2016)
Journal Article

Editorial

The project (management) discourse and its consequences: On vulnerability and unsustainability in project-based work (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In this paper, we examine how the discourses related to project-based work and management are drawn upon in the organising of contemporary work, and the implications they have for project workers. We are interested in... Read More about The project (management) discourse and its consequences: On vulnerability and unsustainability in project-based work.

Knowledge acquisition through process mapping: Factors affecting the performance of work-based activity (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Business improvement initiatives have benefit for both an organisation’s operational effectiveness and its knowledge acquisition capabilities. These have a synergistic effect upon the ability to gai... Read More about Knowledge acquisition through process mapping: Factors affecting the performance of work-based activity.

Sediment, subversion and suffering: Can the project be resisted? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we seek to entwine a number of epistemic and practical perspectives around an activity that is increasingly the foundation of knowledge production: the funded research project. Specifically, we have chosen as our example a project comm... Read More about Sediment, subversion and suffering: Can the project be resisted?.

Existential questioning as critical performativity/critical knowing: An exploration of power, epistemic virtue and emancipation in PM's practice (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we explore how existential hermeneutic (and philosophical questioning more broadly) might provide a deeper understanding of manifestations of epistemic violence in project-based organising and project management practice, and the possib... Read More about Existential questioning as critical performativity/critical knowing: An exploration of power, epistemic virtue and emancipation in PM's practice.

Making projects critical 15 years on: a retrospective reflection (2001-2016) (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the formation and evolution of the “Making Projects Critical” movement in project management research. Design/methodology/approach: Retrospective and discursi... Read More about Making projects critical 15 years on: a retrospective reflection (2001-2016).

The found world: A learning adventure at Eden (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We wish to present a reflective account of a participatory action inquiry in which a cosmopolitan and professionally and educationally diverse group of students and staff explored, in collaboration with our hosts from the Eden Project Trust, the inno... Read More about The found world: A learning adventure at Eden.

Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this paper/roundtable discussion is to expose and discuss our experience with an alternative pedagogic method of post-graduate (management) education: a field trip, which combines student-led, inquiry-based learning approach with a critica... Read More about Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip.

Responsible education for sustainable development: Creating a pedagogic approach which reflects the complexity of the vision (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Responsible management of projects in the context of international development: A critical overview of governance, leadership and power (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ‘slippery’ concept of ‘culture’ in projects: Towards alternative theoretical possibilities embedded in project practice (2014)
Journal Article

Project Management as Management Innovation (2014)
Book Chapter

Developing better theory about project organizations (2013)
Journal Article

Project management implementations as management innovation- A closer look? (2013)
Book

Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Svetlana will bring her critical perspective to an examination of culture in projects. She will highlight the importance of the relational in manifestations of project cultures through looking at issues of agency, risk and social psychology of trust.... Read More about Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions.

Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens (2012)
Journal Article

Management innovation is a complex and dynamic process of organizational change that is not well understood. Drawing from the innovation and organizational change literatures, and using project management as an example of one particular form of manag... Read More about Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens.

Learning from project management implementation journeys (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Project deadline: A precondition for survival? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution