Managing organizational challenges in global projects

Aarseth, Wenche; Rolstadås, Asbjørn; Andersen, Bjørn

doi:10.1108/ijmpb-02-2011-0008

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“…The findings also recognize the following as the prominent demotivation components affecting the overall performance and efficiency of project managers in many projects: unclear relationship between standards and performance, lack of financial incentive strategies; method to align intangible outcomes, time-consuming decision-making process by clients; remuneration scale; systematic biases and influence https://doi.org/10.15405/epms.2019.12.63 Corresponding Author: Amin Akhavan Tabassi Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2421-826X 638 of culture in project outcomes, delay in responding to request for information; project management maturity at project and organization level, shortage of skilled labour force; shortage of materials; setting up the key performance indicators for supplier evaluation, clarity and completeness of technical specifications; frequent changing orders during execution; and rework activities (Hwang & Ng, 2013;Sawhney & Paul, 2014;Aarseth et al, 2014;Tabassi et al, 2012).…”

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Challenges For Project Management In The 21st Century

Tabassi¹,

Bryde²,

Kamal³

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The European Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Challenges could be observed as opportunities for success. The growth of project management body of knowledge and the advancement of project managers' capabilities in dealing with resources are crucial to the successful delivery of projects. As the main objective of this paper is to overview the key challenges for project managers in the current century to help the Future Built Environment, a systematic literature review analysis on PM features was conducted by evaluating over 256 published research papers under the Project Management topic during the past 15 years (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018). As result of this exploration, the research highlighted 18 main challenges and over 125 parameters related to challenges in projects from the extant literature. The management of uncertainty and dealing with different challenges are necessary conditions for effective project management. Sources of challenges are wide ranging and have fundamental effects on projects and the project management body of knowledge. These challenges are not limited to specific industries, and include scope management, information technology, team dynamics, customers' satisfaction, lean management, communication, innovation and quality. Common project management body of knowledge does not address many of the listed sources of challenges, particularly in 'soft' project management skills where flexibility and tolerance of PMs are necessary. The findings of this review paper help scholars to put their attempts on key challenges in managing projects effectively. Such attempts need to entail project managers' capabilities as well as the organization maturities including some aspects of organisation culture and learning.

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“…The current market in different businesses demands that companies become more multinational and more global (Aarseth, Rolestadas, & Anderson, 2014). The modern world is getting smaller as the technological and financial systems try to make global business groups scaled-down.…”

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Challenges For Project Management In The 21st Century

Tabassi¹,

Bryde²,

Kamal³

et al. 2019

The European Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Sciences

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“…The results of further studies show that the main organizational challenges are managing the external stakeholders in the global project; the local government in the country, local content demand, local authorities, local industry, and lack of support from the base organization and management (Aarseth et al, 2014).…”

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Global Projects: A Conceptual Review on Execution Attitude in Multinational Corporations

Mossolly¹

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Global projects are remarkably emerging all around the world, whether at the mega level such as Oil & Gas projects or at the micro level such as in specific R&D projects. Global Projects can be very complex or can be quite simple, they might involve huge investments or rather be at low budget, they can have a diverse spectrum of stakeholders or a limited community of beneficiaries. Accordingly the definition of Global Projects is actually far from being obvious. It is suggested that several factors are favoring the emergence of Global projects, such as globalization of business environment, cost driven project execution strategies, national requirements for local presence, dispersion of expertise, joint venture projects and corporate mergers & acquisitions. However Global Projects are thought to be associated with some side effects, such as integration and/or coordination difficulties, statutory and regulatory issues, uncertainty in project controls, and the drawbacks of remoteness and potential cultural differences. Through this conceptual paper, the gap in knowledge about Global Projects is highlighted and areas for potential academic research are suggested. The paper also proposes a series of research questions that are formulated from the literature review conclusions. The outputs of this conceptual literature review & analysis suggest that there are insufficient research and academic publications written on the subject. The discussions presented in the literature about global projects are actually fragmented and segregated with a clear biased drift toward the focus on cross-cultural aspects, virtual teams and project organization. It is intended that this conceptual research paper help researchers and projects stakeholders in international business environment better understand the opportunities and threats in global project execution, such as on innovation, on inter-transfer of knowledge and organizational resources and their relation to value creation in multinational corporations.

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“…In the modern conditions of economic, social, and cultural integration global networks have been developed concerning the communication, logistics, investment, and outsourcing operations. Moreover, an expansion of global project networks is observed where the so called global project is understood as a "temporary collaboration between organizations across nations and cultures with the intention to jointly deliver a unique product or service in a complex external context requiring relationship management" (Aarseth et al, 2013). This ultimately concerns individual professionals, project teams, and project-oriented companies in a variety of contexts related to the acquisition and implementation of specific knowledge, culture, skills, competences, and contemporary organizational practices in project management.…”

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A Principal Component Analysis of Project Portfolio Management Practices

Alexandrova¹

2018

EMS

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In a turbulent business environment organizations are exposed to new opportunities but also various threats, e.g. financial, market, ecological, technological, politicalal, etc. In such highly competitive conditions the optimal utilization of resources emerges as a critical aspect of project management and its implementation in modern organizations. Nowadays project portfolio solutions are frequently indroduced in business practices. Deploying project portfolio management can facilitate the balance between effectiveness and efficiency. In the recent decades this approach has proliferated as a contemporary practice targeted to support the realization of the organizational strategy. The understanding of project portfolio management within the current study considers it as a centralized and balanced approach to the management of a set of projects constituting a portfolio, in order to achieve the strategic goals of the organization. This is accomplished by targeted processesevaluation, selection, execution, prioritization, assessment, monitoring, and control of projects or programstaking into account their alignment to the organizational strategy and contribution to the achievement of their objectives. The goal of the paper is to explore the major factors that favourably affect project portfolio management practices in Bulgarian project-oriented organizations using survey data from 184 respondents. Using an original research instrument, data about the implementation of project portfolio management were collected through purposive sampling of organizations that apply such an approach in their operations. Selected empirical results from a questionnaire survey of the factors of effective project portfolio management are presented regarding the practices in the studied organizations. A set of specific items concerning the project portfolio management practice are grouped into five major factors using principal component analysis. Each of these latent factors reflects a particular cluster of internal capabilities of the organizations to successfully implement project portfolio management in dynamic and complex business environment.

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Managing organizational challenges in global projects

Cited by 33 publications

References 68 publications

Challenges For Project Management In The 21st Century

Challenges For Project Management In The 21st Century

Global Projects: A Conceptual Review on Execution Attitude in Multinational Corporations

A Principal Component Analysis of Project Portfolio Management Practices

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