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Project success and project team management: Evidence from capital projects in the process industries
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In this paper, a theoretically based five-dimensional model of organizational context, project team design, project leader, project process, and project outcome factors was constructed and tested by using 56 newly completed capital projects executed by 15 Fortune 500 companies in the process industries.About:
This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2008-11-01. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Project team & Project management triangle.read more
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Transformational leadership and project success: The mediating role of team-building
TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating role of team-building is proposed as a possible explanation of the relationship between transformational leadership and project success. But, the results of the study indicate that teambuilding partially mediates the effect of transformational leaders on project success, which is not known about the mechanisms that explain this effect.
Perspectives on the productivity dilemma
Paul S. Adler,Mary J. Benner,David James Brunner,John Paul MacDuffie,Emi Osono,Bradley R. Staats,Hirotaka Takeuchi,Michael L. Tushman,Sidney G. Winter +8 more
TL;DR: Boyer and Swink as discussed by the authors presented an All-academy session at the 2008 Academy of Management annual meeting in Anaheim, California and invited the authors to write an article offering their individual and joint views on the productivity dilemma.
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Benefits Realisation Management and its influence on project success and on the execution of business strategies
Carlos Serra,Martin Kunc +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a survey to practitioners in Brazil, United Kingdom and United States evaluating the impact of benefits realization management practices on project success rate, and they show that these results suggest that BRM practices can be effective to support the successful execution of business strategies.
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Critical success factors of sustainable project management in construction: A fuzzy DEMATEL-ANP approach
Reza Kiani Mavi,Craig Standing +1 more
TL;DR: To identify critical success factors of project management and categorize them into five criteria groups, it is shown that the organization, external environment and sustainability are “cause” criteria, while project and project management are identified as “effects”.
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A General Framework for Gauging the Performance of Initiatives to Enhance Organizational Value
Ofer Zwikael,John Smyrk +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new methodology to assess projects based on the concept of "worth" and proposed a project performance framework that both expands and extends traditional approaches, drawing on principal-agent, regret, and contingency theories.
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