Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing: (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series)

This Research Handbook provides a cutting-edge review of complex project organizing (CPO), and suggests fruitful avenues for future research with a focus on grand challenges and a sustainable future. Split into four sections, this Research Handbook addresses transitions within the field of CPO that could, and should, take place to achieve our shared aspirations for a better future. Featuring a team of contributors that is both interdisciplinary and geographically widespread, chapters provide a clarification of core concepts of complex project organizing, comprehensive coverage of leading theoretical perspectives for CPO, as well as a discussion of key empirical research themes. In particular, special attention is given to the implications of Industry 4.0 for complex project organizing. The Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing develops a guiding path to help academics – both established and early career – and research students in the fields of business leadership, operations management, and knowledge management navigate through these important topics, and envision how to respond to the grand challenges we all face.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword xv Rodney Turner Acknowledgements xvii 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing 1 Graham M. Winch, Maude Brunet and Dongping Cao PART I CORE CONCEPTS OF COMPLEX PROJECT ORGANIZING 2 Uncertainty 17 Graham M. Winch 3 Complexity 26 Tyson R. Browning 4 Projectivity 36 Graham M. Winch 5 Temporality 46 Anne Live Vaagaasar, Therese Dille and Tor Hernes PART II PERSPECTIVES FROM ORGANIZATION THEORY 6 Contingency theory and its applications to complex project organizing 60 Peerasit Patanakul 7 System dynamics to understand and improve the performance of complex projects 70 Burak Gozluklu and John Sterman 8 Transaction cost economics: governing the commercial interface 78 David Lowe 9 Organizing complex projects from neo-institutional perspectives 89 Jörg Sydow and Jonas Söderlund 10 Foucault’s governmentality and the issue of project collaboration 99 Stewart Clegg and Johan Ninan 11 Projects-as-practice: taking stock and moving on 107 Markus Hällgren and Anders Söderholm 12 Uncovering the role of non-human actors in projects 117 Julien Pollack and Stewart Clegg 13 Project organizing in network contexts 127 Stephan Manning 14 Multi-level project organizing: a complex adaptive systems perspective 138 Pierre A. Daniel and Eric Daniel 15 From duality to dualism in complex project organizing: structuration and morphogenetic theory 148 Graham M. Winch 16 The contribution of design thinking to complex project organizing 158 Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini and Lisa Carlgren PART III CHALLENGES OF COMPLEX PROJECT ORGANIZING 17 Project-based organizations: an overview of an emerging field of research 172 Jonas Söderlund 18 Project governance: conceptual and practical challenges in complex project organizing 183 Ata Ul Musawir 19 Addressing the challenges of new product development by Triple-A project management 193 Alexander Kock and Hans Georg Gemünden 20 Four research strategies for studying organizational project management 203 Monique Aubry 21 Governing inter-organisational relationships in large projects: a review and future research agenda 213 Juliette Engelhart, Jens K. Roehrich and Brian Squire 22 Public-private partnerships as vectors of complexity 223 Pierre-André Hudon, Maude Brunet and Nicolas Paquet 23 Megaprojects: XL challenges in project organizing 233 Alfons van Marrewijk 24 A complexity perspective on project stakeholder management 243 Jere Lehtinen, Christof Kier, Kirsi Aaltonen and Martina Huemann 25 Teaming for complex project organizing: a review of key concepts, project teaming studies and questions for future research 254 Anne Keegan 26 Increasing the effectiveness of project management: using causal mapping to integrate risk, uncertainty, and stakeholders 264 Fran Ackermann and Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez 27 Project narratives: directions for research 274 Natalya Sergeeva and Johan Ninan 28 Project value creation: sensemaking, shaping, and monitoring in a project network 283 Miia Martinsuo 29 Nothing succeeds like success, but what is it anyway? Reconceptualizing project success 293 Lavagnon A. Ika and Jeffrey K. Pinto 30 Owner project capabilities for complex project organising 303 Roine Leiringer 31 Embracing complexity in sustainable project management 312 Luca Sabini and Gilbert Silvius PART IV TOWARDS PROJECT ORGANIZING 4.0 32 Model-based definition and project organising: towards digital and integrated project delivery 327 Dongping Cao, Shiting Shao and Guangbin Wang 33 Has the Internet of Things made a real difference to the management of projects? 335 Igor Martek, M. Reza Hosseini, David John Edwards and Faris Elghaish 34 Artificial intelligence in project organizing 344 Chao Xiao, Qian Shi and Huijin Zhang 35 Taming complexity in project organising through blockchain 353 Eleni Papadonikolaki and Klaudia Jaskula 36 Big data analytics and project organizing 366 Weisheng Lu and Jinying Xu 37 A management flight simulator to catalyse learning about complex projects 375 Burak Gozluklu and John Sterman 38 The digital revolution and complex project organizing: towards Project Management 4.0? 383 Jennifer Whyte, Karim Farghaly and Shanjing Zhou (Alexander) Index

About the Author :
Edited by Graham M. Winch, Professor of Project Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, UK, Maude Brunet, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montréal, Canada and Dongping Cao, Associate Professor, Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, China

Review :
‘Modern projects, whether undertaken by public organizations for societal benefit or private firms for commercial advantage, pose a genuine challenge for their sponsors, who often discover belatedly that their technical challenges are quickly eclipsed by other layers of complexity involved in managing myriad stakeholders (team members, cooperating organizations, public advocacy groups, and so forth). The more we can identify – in advance – the combination of technical and behavioral challenges to be addressed and begin to formulate the best means to respond to these challenges, the greater the likelihood our projects will realize their often lofty goals. Professors Winch, Brunet, and Cao have created a singularly valuable book that comes at a welcome and opportune moment, as public and private sector money to be spent on projects continues to balloon. The work of three acknowledged, world-class thinkers on project management, Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing is destined to be an immediate and significant addition to the literature and current managerial practice. Its arrival is both timely and of critical importance to our deeper understanding of project management challenges in the twenty-first century.’