Doing strategy in project-based organizations: Actors and patterns of action

Löwstedt, Martin; Räisänen, Christine; Leiringer, Roine

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.05.002

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“…Söderlund and Maylor (2012) argue that a way of integrating strategy and its execution to project management is getting involved with the people responsible for the strategy and with the project managers, as to know the limits and differences in their perspectives before the realization of the strategy. However, in recent research developed by Löwstedt et al (2018) there is a contradiction to this paradigm, as the author´s discoveries point to an overlap of roles and practices, that is, project managers acting in their main function and as legit organizational strategists.…”

Section: Strategic Alignment In a Project-based Businessmentioning

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Alignment strategic in project-based businesses: a review of the literature

Brito

Júnior

2021

RIAE

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Objective: This literature review sought to understand the theoretical-empirical connections of strategic alignment in project-based businessesMethodology: We carried out a systematic review with searches in scientific databases (Web of Science and Scopus) and application of technical snowballing with the intention of finding the most relevant works on the topic. The strings adopted were based on the keywords: project-based businesses and strategy. Filters related to the research area, the document types and the language were applied. The selected articles were analyzed following the steps: removal of duplicates, reading of titles, abstracts and quality assessment. After these steps, 20 papers were analyzed in a descriptive and exploratory way using VOSviewer, Biblioshiny and MS Excel software.Originality: The paper filled a gap concerning strategic alignment in the context of project-based business, which is an emerging concept that is little debated in the literature.Main results: The results showed a mutual influence between strategy alignment and project management. It was found that the first helps organizations to focus on correct projects, while project management helps achieves their strategic objectives. Four research focuses related to the strategic alignment in the PBB were also published in the literature: project management and organizational strategy; interaction between actors in the formation of strategies; program, portfolio and governance management; project management office and organizational design.Contributions: The contribution consists of presenting a set of propositions that systematize the findings of the papers and elucidate ways for the formation of a research agenda.

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Section: Strategic Alignment In a Project-based Businessmentioning

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Alignment strategic in project-based businesses: a review of the literature

Brito

Júnior

2021

RIAE

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“…There was also an opportunity for longitudinal case studies (in longer-term ethnographic work), such as Löwstedt et al (2018), who undertook a five-year study on a large multinational company. They gathered data from: open-ended interviews of 27 practitioners, field observations in a series of strategy workshops, and a four-week ethnography with the first author working as a 'dog's body'.…”

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“…Insights revealed from these studies can provide guidance and perspectives on the management of construction projects. For example, Löwstedt et al (2018) made a theoretical contribution, by investigating strategy from a practice perspective, which they note is neglected in the project literature. Shipton et al (2014) explained that theoretical accounts of making changes are rare, and from observed changes in their study, they provided practical insights to inform policy guidance and contract drafting.…”

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Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry: A Critical Review

Oswald

Dainty

2020

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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A decade ago, there were multiple calls for more ethnographic research in the construction industry in order to provide deeper insights into industry practice. Since those calls, methods under the umbrella of ethnographic methods have been more regularly applied, with various data collection techniques being adopted, often as part of multi-faceted research designs. It is argued that it is now an appropriate time to critically review ethnographic research studies over the past ten years, in order to establish the kinds of knowledge they generate and the intervention that they may inform. In doing so, this also begins to identify contributions and areas that deserve more attention. We reviewed 57 relevant studies that adopted approaches such as auto-ethnography, quasiethnography, ethnographic-action research, retrospective ethnography and ethnographic interviewing, used both to explore problems and confirm results. Interesting intense forms of ethnography dominated, with alternative and shorter-term ethnographic work (as opposed to 'classic' long-term approaches) forming the basis of the majority of the studies reviewed. The methods explicated within these papers suggested they were rooted within different ontological positions, with there being little consistency in terms of how the rigour of the approaches used was evaluated. There was also a distinct lack of researcher reflexivity on their emotions. This means that many researchers fail to reflect on their role within the social worlds that they study; which, in a Western construction context can be a macho, masculine, and potentially dangerous (physically and mentally) environment. Greater levels of appreciation and consistency in judging ethnographic research, and greater reflexivity on the influence of the researcher's position and influence on the practices studied, are pre-requisites for robust ethnographic practice.

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“…e concept of integrated management was first proposed and applied from the information technology (IT) industry and later developed into a field of expertise in project management. In this new management concept and method, integrated concepts are leveraged to guide and manage practical activities [14]. A traditional management mode derives from the theory of division of labor, while this new approach highlights integration thought, and it also fuses and amplifies individual advantages so that improved comprehensive efficiency, along with management activities, is ensured.…”

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Mapping Knowledge Domains of Integration in BIM-Based Construction Networks: A Systematic Mixed-Method Review

Guo

Feng

2019

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Building information modeling-based construction networks (BbCNs) are teams from several professional organizations working together to assume building information modeling- (BIM-) related assignments on BIM-enabled projects. With a view to achieving a better understanding of the knowledge domains on integration in BbCNs, a systematic mixed-method review of the relevant studies published from 2008 to 2018 is conducted in this study. An “integration pentagon” made up of context, process, organization, task, and actor is used as a theoretical lens to identify and construct knowledge maps describing the integration in BbCNs. The study conducts a comprehensive review upon a bibliometric analysis based on 1019 researches into BIM and a qualitative analysis of 42 carefully selected researches into integration in BbCNs. The findings confirm that the solutions provided by these researches to support integration in BbCNs are altogether technology oriented. The sociotechnical dimensions including context, organization, task, and actor show limitations. More importantly, the major academic contributions of the study lie in offering an objective and systematic analysis of previous researches, revealing the gaps on integration in BbCNs, and advising researchers in future studies regarding the integration pentagon as an all-inclusive analysis tool. These results highlight the status quo of BbCNs knowledge and serve as a dynamic platform to allow other scholars to perform further developments of integration in BbCNs.

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Doing strategy in project-based organizations: Actors and patterns of action

Cited by 31 publications

References 50 publications

Alignment strategic in project-based businesses: a review of the literature

Alignment strategic in project-based businesses: a review of the literature

Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry: A Critical Review

Mapping Knowledge Domains of Integration in BIM-Based Construction Networks: A Systematic Mixed-Method Review

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