Implications of Network Relations for the Governance of Complex Projects

Adami, Vivian Sebben; Verschoore, Jorge Renato

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“…Our focus in developing this conceptual framework was to initiate a dialogue about the development and propagation of conflict within the social networks of large technology or software engineering programmes that use a multi-partner environment, and in particular enterprise system implementations, due to their influence over the organizationwide business processes/operations used by the client. This complements the recent work of Adami and Verschoore [83] who focused on project governance within a network of interacting organizations, along with that of Rivard and Lapointe [84] who used a cybernetic approach for investigating user resistance to IT implementation. Through leveraging our rich picture (see Fig.…”

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Conflict Propagation Within Large Technology and Software Engineering Programmes: A Multi-Partner Enterprise System Implementation as Case Study

Williams

2019

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Enterprise system implementations are increasingly outsourced to multiple third-party service providers. These multi-partner technology and software engineering programmes are usually organized through project teams that align to the functional areas of the software. Cognitive, occupational and personal differences between members of project teams increases the potential for conflict, which in extreme cases may propagate throughout the entire social network of the programme. Using social network analysis and thematic coding analysis, within a single case study, new insights are provided into the development of conflict within and between individual project teams of large technology and software programmes, such as those seen within enterprise system implementations. A conceptual framework has been developed that builds on existing literature around conflict in groups, to explore how task, process and relationship conflict can develop in large enterprise system implementations. The conceptual framework illustrates how conflict, once developed, can propagate throughout the social network of the wider programme. Finally, we argue that high-conflict organizations, such as the temporary multi-partner implementation team that forms to deliver large technology and software programmes, have a tendency to contain competing networks, which actively promotes conflict. We conclude by setting the agenda for further research on how we may contain the spread of conflict once it has developed within technology and software engineering programme environments.INDEX TERMS Conflict, conceptual framework, enterprise system, software engineering project, project and programme management.

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Conflict Propagation Within Large Technology and Software Engineering Programmes: A Multi-Partner Enterprise System Implementation as Case Study

Williams

2019

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“…In the project management literature, governance structures are usually introduced as snapshots of already developed structures. That is, the actors and institutions are placed at different levels of governance, and several aspects of the governance structure are designed to be flexible and adaptive against the dynamics of internal interrelations and external environment (Qiu et al, 2019) with the aim of reaching higher capability (Adami & Verschoore, 2018; Müller et al, 2014) or enhancing efficiency (Crawford et al, 2008; Zhai et al, 2017).…”

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Evolution of Governance in a Collaborative University–Industry Program

Derakhshan

Fernandes

Mancini

2020

Project Management Journal

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This article presents the emergence and evolution of actors and institutions in a collaborative program from the strategic planning to the execution and delivery phase. The ethnographic study of a collaboration revealed that, while formal regulations are prerequisites for initiating collaborations, further drivers of the interactions between program participants are oriented by path dependency, cultural familiarities, and goal sharing. This article shows that many microdynamics exist among actors and institutions inside the governance structure, co-evolving in parallel with the transition through the program’s phases. There are, however, two main drivers orienting these dynamics: formal regulations and trust.

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“…It is characterized by inextricable relations among social, natural, and material factors [40], which have trouble in understanding and analyzing in sociological research. Among the approaches that have tried to develop a more complex analysis of the inherent relationship of NIMBY crisis, complex network occupies a prominent position because of its strong influence on theoretical and empirical sociological research [41].…”

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Reconstruction of ER Network from Specific Academic Texts for the Governance of MSW‐NIMBY Crisis in China

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Along with urban development globally, the NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard) crisis has been a complex social problem, which requires urgent remedial action. The inevitable management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has been one of the toughest risk management tasks in the worldwide modernization process. At present, certain fuzzy and unstructured results and methods have been formed for MSW-NIMBY crisis response, mainly focusing on the sociology and politics which scatter in complex and sensitive reports and news. Aiming at enhancing the effectiveness of data mining from specific sparse text of MSW-NIMBY crisis, an improved knowledge extraction method is developed. Through rule-based text mining and complex network analysis, the Entity Relationship (ER) network of MSW-NIMBY crisis is reconstructed. Meanwhile, a novel transitivity for relationship between entities in semantic analysis is proposed to improve the feasibility and accuracy of information extraction. Characteristics and regularity of MSW-NIMBY crisis evolution and experience of crisis governance could be identified effectively. Results show that knowledge integration and ER transitivity can enhance knowledge recognition and major other factors, which could help formulate the governance strategies of NIMBY crisis from academic texts.

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Implications of Network Relations for the Governance of Complex Projects

Cited by 40 publications

References 50 publications

Conflict Propagation Within Large Technology and Software Engineering Programmes: A Multi-Partner Enterprise System Implementation as Case Study

Conflict Propagation Within Large Technology and Software Engineering Programmes: A Multi-Partner Enterprise System Implementation as Case Study

Evolution of Governance in a Collaborative University–Industry Program

Reconstruction of ER Network from Specific Academic Texts for the Governance of MSW‐NIMBY Crisis in China

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