Christophe Midler

TL;DR: The case of the French firm Renault is studied in this paper, which effected a transition from the classical functional organization in the 1960s to project coordination in the 1970s and since 1989 to autonomous and powerful project teams, which had profound and destabilizing effects on the other permanent logics of the firm (task definitions, hierarchic regulations, carrier management, functions and supplier relations).

TL;DR: Fonde sur l'aventure exemplaire de la creation de la Twingo par Renault en 1992, a livre nous eclaire sur toutes les questions suscitees par la gestion par projets dans les entreprises as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: There is a growing tendency to organize various aspects of business life by projects, and to set up temporary organizations in a competition where speed and adaptability becomes a major necessity.

TL;DR: In this article, leading authorities on project organizing explore the growing deployment of projects and other types of temporary organizations, with a focus on the challenges created by projectifica cation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the management of the final phases of the design process of an innovative product-related service and identify a field that needs exploration by researchers in product and service innovation: the design of the sales process.