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Organizational enablers for project governance /

Corporate culture and the way business is done (called governance) can be a significant factor in a company's success. Governance represents the "what" within the organization: what aspects of business performance fall under whose responsibilities. Another factor, called governmentali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Müller, Ralf, 1957- (Autor), Shao, Jingting (Autor), Pemsel, Sofia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newtown Square, PA : Project Management Institute, Inc., [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Study background
  • Research questions
  • Scope and objectives of the study
  • Institutional theory
  • The management process
  • Milestones and deliverables
  • Theoretical perspective and literature review
  • Institutional theory
  • Governance
  • Governance in the realm of projects
  • Governmentality
  • Organizational enablers
  • Projectification
  • Research design and methodology
  • Research design
  • Study 1 Methodology: systematic literature review
  • Study 2 Methodology: qualitative cross-sectional study
  • Study 3 methodology: the quantitative study
  • Study 4 Methodology: the longitudinal study
  • Case companies and narratives
  • Company b: medium, Sweden
  • Company c: large, Sweden
  • Company d: Small, China
  • Company e: medium, China
  • Company f: large, China
  • Conceptual and qualitative studies: analysis and results
  • Analyses at the level of project governance, governance of projects, and governmentality
  • Mediation analyses
  • The relationship between organizational enablers and success
  • Discussion
  • Organizational enablers
  • Contextual influences
  • An institutional theory perspective
  • Organizational enablers: an institutional reflection
  • Conclusions
  • Research question 1-governance practices
  • Research question 2-organizational enablers
  • Research question 3-evolution of governance and governmentality
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 2
  • Enablers for project governance
  • Appendix 3: interview questions-study 4
  • Appendix 4: summary of governance in the small swedish company
  • Appendix 5: summary of governance in the medium-size Swedish company
  • Appendix 6: summary of governance in the large Swedish company
  • Appendix 7: summary of governance in the small Chinese company
  • Appendix 8: summary of governance in the medium-size Chinese company
  • Appendix 9: summary of governance in the large chinese company
  • Appendix 10: commonalities and differences among the case companies
  • Appendix 11: descriptive statistics
  • Appendix 12: demographic differences
  • Appendix 13: differences by governance and corporate success
  • Appendix 14: governance profiles by success type
  • References.