Making Projects Critical [Paperback]

Making Projects Critical is an edited collection contributed by a range of international scholars linking the area of project management with critical management perspectives. Challenging recent debates on inherent problems in project management, the text considers project management within a wider organizational and societal context.Making Projects Critical is an edited collection contributed by a range of international scholars linking the area of project management with critical management perspectives. Challenging recent debates on inherent problems in project management, the text considers project management within a wider organizational and societal context.Making Projects Critical: An Introduction; S.Cicmil & D.Hodgson.- Are Projects Real?; S.Cicmil & D.Hodgson.- From Project Ontologies to Communities of Virtue; C.Linehan & D.Kavanagh.- Project Management, Organisational Change and Learning; M.Bresnen.- Problematizing Project Management; J.L.Thomas .- Projects and Prisons; M.Lindgren & J.Packendorff.- The Contested Object: On Projects as Emergent Space; M.O.Nocker.- An Actor Network Theory Perspective on IT Projects; A.Linde & H.Linderoth.- Reorganisation Projects and Five Uncertainties; E.Molloy & R.Whittington.- A Tale of an Evolving Project; C.Smith.- Understanding Power in Project Settings; N.Marshall.- The Management of Projects in the Construction Industry; S.D.Green.- Managing Projects in Network Contexts; J.Sydow.- Making the Future Perfect: Constructing the Olympic Dream; S.R.Clegg, T.S.Pitsis, M.Marosszeky & T.Rura-Polley.- Conflicting Rhetorical Positions on Trust and Commitment; J.Sillince, C.Harvey & G.Harindranath.- Sensemaking as a Process within Complex Projects; C.Ivory, N.Alderman, I.McLoughlin & R.Vaughan.- Making the Management of Projects Critical; P.W.G.Morris.
DAMIAN HODGSON is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Analysis and HRM at Manchester BusineslÓ)