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What’s in a name: Project or programme?
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In this article, the authors argue that a distinct program management model, grounded in a view of social reality as continually constructed through the actions and interactions of individuals, provides an alternative way of shaping and undertaking change initiatives.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Project Management.The article was published on 2011-02-01. It has received 146 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Project stakeholder & Program management.read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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The three roles of a project portfolio management office: Their impact on portfolio management execution and success
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three different activity patterns, interpreted as distinctive roles in Project Portfolio Management Office (PPMO), and show a significant positive effect of PPMO's coordinating and controlling roles on performance in terms of project portfolio management quality.
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Project studies: What it is, where it is going
Joana Geraldi,Jonas Söderlund +1 more
TL;DR: Project organizing is a growing field of scholarly inquiry and management practice as discussed by the authors, and there has been a greater interest in different kinds of scholarly enquiry in the field of project organizing.
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Benefits realisation management: panacea or false dawn?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there are important underlying conceptual issues in benefits management which have practical implications and need to be recognised in the development of theory for BRM, by drawing on the author's experience from the 1990s and 2000s in working in the management of government-funded regeneration programmes in the UK.
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Complexity, uncertainty-reduction strategies, and project performance☆
TL;DR: This paper develops a classification of project complexity by relying on fundamental theoretical insights about complexity and then uses results from practice-oriented literature to assign concrete project complexity factors to the resulting categories.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
Alan Sica,Anthony Giddens +1 more
TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration
TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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Sensemaking in organizations
TL;DR: The Nature of Sensemaking Seven properties of sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sense-making Belief-Driven Processes of Sense Making Action-driven Processes on Sensemaking.