Project organization: Exploring its adaptation properties

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Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden [1 ]
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[1] Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University
来源：
Int. J. Proj. Manage. | 2008年 / 1卷 / 13-20期
关键词：
Adaptation modes; Evolutionary theory; Project organization;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ijproman.2007.08.011
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摘要：
Firms investing in project organization often do so in order to become more flexible, adaptable and customer-oriented. This promotes the question of whether there are specific properties of project organization, which contribute to instilling such capabilities in a firm, and if so, what managers could do in order to bring them on board. I discuss how certain project organization features may be conducive to that end, and suggest that project-level processes display features of an evolutionary learning process, with pre-selection, variation and retention as distinguishable process steps. Similarly, at higher levels within project-based firms, projects can be used as experiments within trial-and-error based strategic learning. A case study of a project-based firm is used to illustrate the propositions and managerial implications put forward. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd and IPMA.
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