Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing

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

‘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.’

• Contents:Foreword xvRodney TurnerAcknowledgements xvii1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing 1Graham M. Winch, Maude Brunet and Dongping CaoPART I CORE CONCEPTS OF COMPLEX PROJECT ORGANIZING2 Uncertainty 17Graham M. Winch3 Complexity 26Tyson R. Browning4 Projectivity 36Graham M. Winch5 Temporality 46Anne Live Vaagaasar, Therese Dille and Tor HernesPART II PERSPECTIVES FROM ORGANIZATION THEORY6 Contingency theory and its applications to complex project organizing 60Peerasit Patanakul7 System dynamics to understand and improve the performance ofcomplex projects 70Burak Gozluklu and John Sterman8 Transaction cost economics: governing the commercial interface 78David Lowe9 Organizing complex projects from neo-institutional perspectives 89Jörg Sydow and Jonas Söderlund10 Foucault’s governmentality and the issue of project collaboration 99Stewart Clegg and Johan Ninan11 Projects-as-practice: taking stock and moving on 107Markus Hällgren and Anders Söderholm12 Uncovering the role of non-human actors in projects 117Julien Pollack and Stewart Clegg13 Project organizing in network contexts 127Stephan Manning14 Multi-level project organizing: a complex adaptive systems perspective 138Pierre A. Daniel and Eric Daniel15 From duality to dualism in complex project organizing: structurationand morphogenetic theory 148Graham M. Winch16 The contribution of design thinking to complex project organizing 158Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini and Lisa CarlgrenPART III CHALLENGES OF COMPLEX PROJECT ORGANIZING17 Project-based organizations: an overview of an emerging field of research 172Jonas Söderlund18 Project governance: conceptual and practical challenges in complexproject organizing 183Ata Ul Musawir19 Addressing the challenges of new product development byTriple-A project management 193Alexander Kock and Hans Georg Gemünden20 Four research strategies for studying organizational project management 203Monique Aubry21 Governing inter-organisational relationships in large projects: a reviewand future research agenda 213Juliette Engelhart, Jens K. Roehrich and Brian Squire22 Public-private partnerships as vectors of complexity 223Pierre-André Hudon, Maude Brunet and Nicolas Paquet23 Megaprojects: XL challenges in project organizing 233Alfons van Marrewijk24 A complexity perspective on project stakeholder management 243Jere Lehtinen, Christof Kier, Kirsi Aaltonen and Martina Huemann25 Teaming for complex project organizing: a review of key concepts,project teaming studies and questions for future research 254Anne Keegan26 Increasing the effectiveness of project management: using causalmapping to integrate risk, uncertainty, and stakeholders 264Fran Ackermann and Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez27 Project narratives: directions for research 274Natalya Sergeeva and Johan Ninan28 Project value creation: sensemaking, shaping, and monitoring ina project network 283Miia Martinsuo29 Nothing succeeds like success, but what is it anyway?Reconceptualizing project success 293Lavagnon A. Ika and Jeffrey K. Pinto30 Owner project capabilities for complex project organising 303Roine Leiringer31 Embracing complexity in sustainable project management 312Luca Sabini and Gilbert SilviusPART IV TOWARDS PROJECT ORGANIZING 4.032 Model-based definition and project organising: towards digital andintegrated project delivery 327Dongping Cao, Shiting Shao and Guangbin Wang33 Has the Internet of Things made a real difference to the management ofprojects? 335Igor Martek, M. Reza Hosseini, David John Edwards and Faris Elghaish34 Artificial intelligence in project organizing 344Chao Xiao, Qian Shi and Huijin Zhang35 Taming complexity in project organising through blockchain 353Eleni Papadonikolaki and Klaudia Jaskula36 Big data analytics and project organizing 366Weisheng Lu and Jinying Xu37 A management flight simulator to catalyse learning about complex projects 375Burak Gozluklu and John Sterman38 The digital revolution and complex project organizing: towards ProjectManagement 4.0? 383Jennifer Whyte, Karim Farghaly and Shanjing Zhou (Alexander)Index