How dare you? Introducing critical pedagogy to conceptualise the topic of sustainability in executive business education
(2011)
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Great expectations and hard times: The paradoxical experience of the engineer as project manager (2011)
Journal Article
While tensions between technical and management functions in organisations have long been recognised, very little research examines this relationship empirically in light of the emergence of project management as an (apparently) attractive career rou... Read More about Great expectations and hard times: The paradoxical experience of the engineer as project manager.
Multi-disciplinarity and multiculturalism in sustainability education: Pedagogy of risk and ethics (2011)
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Can a ‘projectified’ society be a ‘sustainable’ society : A juncture of two logics or a contradiction in terms? (2010)
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Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments (2009)
Journal Article
The paper draws on a study of a manufacturing company which delivers engineering solutions, through projects, to customers in the international oil and gas industry. It focuses on the problem of persistent project delays and failure to meet promised... Read More about Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments.
Users' perceptions of the free, virtual-only service experience (2009)
Journal Article
Using two stages of large-scale empirical data collection and analysis, this article presents a first attempt to develop a scale (netQ) for measuring the quality of free, virtual-only service experience. In the first stage, based on responses to an o... Read More about Users' perceptions of the free, virtual-only service experience.
Complexity and the paradox of project control (2009)
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Project management behind the facade (2009)
Journal Article
Exploring the complexity of projects: Implications of complexity theory for project management practice (2009)
Book
Exploring the Complexity of Projects: Implications of Complexity Theory for Project Management Practice explores the process and findings of the implications of the complexity theory for project management theory and practice. The golden triangle (pr... Read More about Exploring the complexity of projects: Implications of complexity theory for project management practice.
The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies (2008)
Journal Article
© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this research note is to articulate the limitations that project management (PM) currently faces by outlining the PM literature’s frequent neglect of political, social and ethical d... Read More about The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies.
Risks of innovation in management education: Introducing a critical management perspective onto a project management MBA elective (2007)
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The politics of standards in modern management: Making 'the project' a reality (2007)
Journal Article
In this paper, we explore the standardization of contemporary management knowledge, focusing in particular upon the role of 'standards' in creating and reifying 'organizational objects', with powerful consequences and with often unrecognized ethical... Read More about The politics of standards in modern management: Making 'the project' a reality.
Insights into collaboration at project level: Complexity, social interaction and individual skills (2007)
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The importance of 'process' in Rethinking Project Management: The story of a UK Government-funded research network (2006)
Journal Article
This paper tells the story of a UK Government-funded research network called Rethinking Project Management, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council between 2004 and 2006. The story is significant because of the considerable a... Read More about The importance of 'process' in Rethinking Project Management: The story of a UK Government-funded research network.
Directions for future research in project management: The main findings of a UK government-funded research network (2006)
Journal Article
In 2003 the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) agreed to fund a research network - Rethinking Project Management - to define a research agenda aimed at enriching and extending the subject of project management beyond its... Read More about Directions for future research in project management: The main findings of a UK government-funded research network.
Rethinking Project Management: Researching the actuality of projects (2006)
Journal Article
This paper puts forth the somewhat controversial position that what is needed to improve project management in practice is not more research on what should be done or the frequency and/or use of traditional project management practices. We argue that... Read More about Rethinking Project Management: Researching the actuality of projects.
Understanding knowledge and skills used in project management practice (2006)
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Rethinking project management: New directions, new practice (2006)
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