Episodic Innovation: R&D Strategies for Project‐Based Environments

Towards a model of dynamic capabilities in innovation-based competitive strategy: Insights from project-oriented service firms

“…Projects are taskoriented, adaptable and flexible and provide an ideal mechanism to provide specific services for clients and often involve co-creation of services (Acha, Gann, & Salter, 2005). In this study we extend the definition of Blindenbach-Driessen and van den Ende (2006) in defining a project-oriented service firm as "a service firm skilled at organizing tasks around projects in anticipation and response to client requirements and in which the needs of the project outweigh other considerations in the firm's decision making".…”

Developing a Framework for Linking Design Intelligence from Multiple Professions in the AEC Industry

“…(Taylor and Levitt 2004) Professional organisations often face difficulties in developing procedural as well as organisational memory from the projects they carry out for building up epistemological knowledge in practice (Acha, Gann and Salter 2005). Preliminary outcomes of the research undertaken by the authors suggest that being in the centre of often contradicting layers of interest from different parties is not an easy position to be in, but it is at this cusp where the most challenging issues get raised.…”

Project-Based Organizing and Strategic Management: A Long-Term Research Agenda on Temporary Organizational Forms

“…Most projects thus create an opportunity to refine existing capabilities as well as nurturing new ones (Keegan and Turner, 2002;Turner and Keegan, 2000;Prencipe and Tell, 2002;Acha, Gann and Salter, 2005). Interestingly, the papers in this volume implicitly underline the fact that under certain conditions projects serve as organizational arrangements for exploiting existing operational capabilities (e.g., carrying out projects replicating an established procedure) and/or building new capabilities (Davies and Frederiksen, 2010).…”