Making projects critical
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Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Basingstoke [England] New York |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Management, work and organisations |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 361 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
1403940851 (paper) 9781403940858 (paper) |
Index Number: | F270 |
CLC: |
F270 F270.7 C931 |
Call Number: | C931/M235 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 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. |