Table of contents - Special Issue: Organizational mechanisms for effective knowledge creation in projects
Guest Editors: Paolo Canonico, Jonas Sderlund, Ernesto De Nito, Gianluigi Mangia
Special issue on organizational mechanisms for effective knowledge creation in projects: Guest editorial
Paolo Canonico, Jonas Söderlund, Ernesto De Nito, Gianluigi MangiaKnowledge creation is increasingly singled out as an important activity in a wide range of sectors. At the same time, projects are considered to be the loci where much of…
Knowledge development and transfer in a mindful project‐organization
Svein S. Andersen, Dag Vidar HanstadIn elite sport competitions there are small margins, and small advantages may be the key to big success. Details that in many other setting would be considered insignificant can…
Transnational project work: practices creating knowing
Katja Maria Hydle, Karl Joachim BreunigThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how practices creating knowing can be enabled in project work.
Temporary project network and innovation: research on the Italian regional wine industry
Mario Pezzillo Iacono, Vincenza Esposito, Alessia BerniThis study aims at exploring the characteristics of the Temporary Project Networks (TPNs) in small and medium‐sized wine producing enterprises, both from a theoretical and an…
Organizing for learning and knowledge creation – are we too afraid to kill it?: Projects as a learning space
Etty Ragnhild NilsenThis paper aims to raise the question of how to organize for learning and knowledge creation at work, and in particular whether intervention and facilitation may obstruct or ease…
Managing knowledge in large‐scale virtual projects: a community‐based approach
Marco Marabelli, Federico Rajola, Chiara Frigerio, Sue NewellThis paper aims to investigate how virtual communities of practice (V‐CoP) develop in large‐scale virtual projects.
Uncovering knowledge‐based time management practices: Implications for project management
Dezhi Wu, Katia PasseriniThe purpose of this research is to investigate individual perceptions of time and time management strategies that professionals utilize to achieve their productivity in the…
Observation's role in technically complex project implementation: the social autopoietic system view
Kaj U. KoskinenThe purpose of this paper is to explore what the role of individuals' observations is in the implementation of technically complex projects.
Organising project‐based companies: Management, control and execution of project‐based industrial operations
Anna JerbrantWith the purpose of enhancing the understanding of multi‐project management, this paper is based on the findings of a doctoral thesis that focuses on the management and…
Ambidexterity in managing business projects – an intellectual capital perspective
Neil Turner, Harvey Maylor, Juani SwartThe purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a doctoral thesis aimed at identifying how project managers orchestrate ambidexterity (the achievement of both exploitation…
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- Prof Nathalie Drouin