The role of the Atlantic corridor project as a form of strategic community of practice in facilitating business transformations in Latin America

Abstract

This thesis examines the way that a change management entity facilitated a deep and lasting business transformation, undertaken as a major program of projects that were engaged in business process re-engineering, logistics supply change management and formation of joint ventures and forms of alliance. It takes a project management perspective of this change agent with a strong focus on how it achieved change through leadership, co-learning strategies and collaboration.This study takes place within the context of a unique historical period of economic transition for Latin America.By the time the globalization wave started to hit South America in the late 80s, both its national economies and various logistic segments were used to operating within a protective and restrictive business context. Regional companies enjoyed operating within bilateral treaties and under the scope of a wide array of subsidies and protective regulations that let them grow without having to face the complexities of a truly competitive free market. On the contrary, foreign companies either found regional entry barriers simply too high or that these barriers deterred them from expanding across a new potential market.

Leading Extreme Projects: Strategy, Risk and Resilience in Practice

“…He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Maritime Business (UMM, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Master’s degree in Marine Economics and Operations (WMU, Malmo, Sweden), MBA in Marine Resource Management (AMC, Launceston, Australia) and Doctor of Project Management (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia). His doctoral thesis (Arroyo, 2009) took an organisational learning and communities of practice perspective of business transformation with participants from mining, petrochemical, heavy industry and transport logistics participants. His thesis provides useful case study analysis and background materials that readers of this book may wish to follow up on (http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/view/rmit:7891).…”