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Sub-theme 44:

Temporary and Project-Based Organizing

 

Convenors:

Patrick Kenis
Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
p.kenis@uvt.nl

Candace Jones
Boston College (USA)
jonescq@bc.edu
 

 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Teams and Temporary Organizations

Chair: Candace Jones

Mark Mortensen
Fuzzy teams: Why do teams disagree on their membership, and what does it mean?
Discussants: David Obstfeld and Miia Martinsuo

Michael O'Leary, Anita Woolley and Mark Mortensen
Multiple team membership in project-based organizations: Managing time, tasks, identities, and boundaries
Discussants: Christina Scott-Young and Päivi Lehtonen

Christina Scott-Young
Modeling the antecedents and consequences of team efficacy in capital projects: An extension of social-cognitive theory to project management
Discussants: Michael O'Leary and Mait Rungi
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Boundary Management

Chair: Patrick Kenis

Anne Keegan, Gabriele Jacobs, Jochen Christe-Zeyse and Lásló Pólos
Beyond intended project based learning: What do people learn about the organization in change projects?
Discussant: Torstein Nesheim and Fausto Di Vincenzo

Eva Maaninen-Olsson and Magnus Mähring
Boundary setting and boundary spanning in the life of temporary organizations
Discussants: Anne Keegan and Tuomas Ahola

Päivi Lehtonen, Miia Martinsuo, Mikko Lehtonen and Perttu Dietrich
Boundary management between temporary and permanent: Linking change programs to their organizational context
Discussants: Eugenia Cacciatori and Bart Cambré
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Dynamics of Project-Based Organizing

Chair: Candace Jones

Stephan Manning and Jörg Sydow
Projects, paths, and practices: Generating continuity in project networks of TV production
Discussants: Axel Haunschild and Anne Keegan

Fausto Di Vicenzo
Temporary organizations, social capital and innovation: An empirical analysis
Discussants: Paul F. Skilton and Jesper Schlamovitz

Nachoem M. Wijnberg and Joris J. Ebbers
Evolutionary dynamics of networks in project-based industries: Structure and agency in the film industry
Discussants: Jörg Sydow and Magnus Mähring
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Creative Projects

Chair: Patrick Kenis

Kristian Kreiner and Graham Winch
Future perfect strategy: The role of imagination and the risks of empty horizons?
Discussants: Bart Cambré and David Tamoschus

Eugenia Cacciatori, Gernot Grabher and David Tamoschus
Knowledge transfer across projects: Evidence from creative, high-tech and engineering industries
Discussants: Joris Knoben and David Obstfeld

David Obstfeld
Creative projects
Discussants: Mark Mortensen and Christina Scott-Young
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Learning and Performance across Projects

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Chair: Patrick Kenis

Torstein Nesheim and Anita Tobiassen
When external consultants work on internal projects: Exploring managerial challenges in the governance of non-employed workers in project-based organizations
Discussants: Tobias Gössling and Mark Mortensen

René Bakker, Bart Cambré and Keith Provan
Resource allocation and discretion in temporary organizations
Discussants: Mait Rungi and Paul Skilton

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Parallel Stream B: Sensemaking and Coordination across Projects

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Chair: Candace Jones

Jesper Schlamovitz
Making sense of the temporary organization: Institutions, roles, and the enactment of management in construction projects
Discussants: Emmanouil Gkeredakis and Graham Winch

Emmanouil Gkeredakis
Coordinating in temporary organisations: New insights from a longitudinal study of a major construction project
Discussants: Jesper Schlamovitz and Kristian Kreiner

Tuomas Ahola
How the past affects to temporary organizing: The effect of inter-organizational relationships on project delivery efficiency
Discussants: Volker Spelthann and Joris Knoben
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Careers, Personnel Practices and Projects

Chair: Candace Jones

Paul F. Skilton
Social capital in the absence of experience: Do connections to buyers and suppliers help under-qualified individuals get work on complex, high value projects?
Discussants: Fausto Di Vicenzo and Birgit Apitzsch

Birgit Apitzsch
The interrelationship between networks and life courses in architecture and media production
Discussants: Joris J. Ebbers and Candace Jones

Volker Spelthann and Axel Haunschild
The distribution of HR practices in a project ecology – The case of VFX production
Discussants: Graham Winch and Anita Tobiassen
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Interdependency, Pacing and Temporality in Projects

Chair: Patrick Kenis

Mait Rungi
Interdependencies between projects in project portfolio management
Discussants: René Bakker and Emmanouil Gkeredakis

René Bakker and Martyna Janowicz
Time matters: The impact of 'temporariness' on the functioning and performance of temporary organizations
Discussants: Jörg Sydow and Kristian Kreiner

Joris Knoben and Tobias Gössling
The role of proximity in temporary organizations
Discussant: Michael O'Leary and Birgit Apitzsch

 

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