Making projects critical / edited by Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil.

Other author Hodgson, Damian E.
Other author Cicmil, Svetlana.
Format Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Descriptionxii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesManagement, work and organisations
Management, work and organisations. ^A489717
Contents Making projects critical : an introduction / Svetlana Cicmil and Damian Hodgson -- Are projects real? The PMBOK and the legitimation of project management knowledge / Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil -- From project ontologies to communities of virtue / Carol Linehan and Donncha Kavanaugh -- Conflicting and conflated discourses? Project management, organisational change and learning / Mike Bresnen -- Problematising project management / Janice Thomas -- Projects and prisons / Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff -- The contested object : on projects as emergent space / Manuela Nocker -- An actor network theory perspective on IT projects / Anneli Linde and Henrik C.J. Linderoth -- Reorganisation projects and five uncertainties / Eamonn Molloy and Richard Whittington -- A tale of an evolving project : failed science or serial reinterpretation? / Charles Smith -- Understanding power in project settings / Nick Marshall -- The management of projects in the construction industry : context, discourse and self-identity / Stuart Green -- Managing projects in network contexts : a structuration perspective / Jörg Sydow -- Making the future perfect : constructing the Olympic dream / Stewart R. Clegg ... [et al.] -- Conflicting rhetorical positions on trust and commitment : talk-as-action in IT project failure / John Sillince, Charles Harvey and G. Harindranath -- Sense-making as a process within complex projects / Chris Ivory ... [et al.] -- Afterword : making the management of projects critical / Peter Morris.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2005056131
ISBN1403940851 (paper)
ISBN9781403940858

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Joyner General Stacks HD69.P75 M355 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold