The emergent realities of project praxis in socially complex project environments

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-156

  Small, Jocelyn ^a   Walker, Derek ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change management; Expatriates; Middle East; Project management; Social processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858827558     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371011014071     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Atkinson, R., Crawford, L. and Ward, S. (2006), “Fundamental uncertainties in projects and the scope of project management”, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 24, pp. 687-98.
2. Bass, B.M. and Avolio, B.J. (1994), Improving Organizational Effectiveness, through Transformational Leadership, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
3. Checkland, P. and Scholes, J. (1990), Soft Systems Methodology in Action, Wiley, Chichester.
4. Chia, R. (1995), “From modern to postmodern organizational analysis”, Organization Studies, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 579-604.
5. Cicmil, S. and Hodgson, D. (2006), “Making projects critical: an introduction”, in Hodgson, D. and Cicmil, S. (Eds), Making Project Critical, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY.
6. Cooke-Davies, T.J., Cicmil, S., Crawford, L. and Richardson, K. (2007), “We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto: mapping the strange landscape of complexity theory, and its relationship to project management”, Project Management Journal, Vol. 38 No. 2, pp. 50-61.
7. Engeström, Y., Kerosuo, H. and Kajamaa, A. (2007), “Beyond discontinuity: expansive organizational learning remembered”, Management Learning, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 319-36.
8. Folke, C. (2006), “Resilience: the emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyses”, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 253-67.
9. Lineham, C. and Kavanagh, D. (2006), “From project ontologies to communities of virtue”, in Hodgson, D. and Cicmil, S. (Eds), Making Projects Critical, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, pp. 51-67.
10. Proulx, J. (2008), “Some differences between Maturana and Varela's theory of cognition and constructivism”, Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 11-26.
11. Riegler, A. (2002), “When is a cognitive system embodied?”, Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 3, pp. 339-48.
12. Söderlund, J. (2004), “Building theories of project management: past research, questions for the future”, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 22, pp. 183-91.
13. Winter, M., Smith, C., Morris, P. and Cicmil, S. (2006), “Directions for future research in project management: the main findings of a UK government-funded research network”, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 24, pp. 638-49.
14. van Donk, D.P. and Molloy, E. (2008), “From organising as projects to projects as organisations”, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 26, pp. 129-37.
15. Vickers, G. (1965), The Art of Judgement, Chapman & Hall, London (reprinted 1983, Harper & Row, London).