A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management
Research into organizations has concluded that organizational effectiveness is paradoxical, i.e., effective organizations have attributes that are simultaneously contradictory, even mutually exclusive. Although projects are temporary organizations, the paradox lens has largely been omitted in their...
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| author | Juhani Iivari |
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| description | Research into organizations has concluded that organizational effectiveness is paradoxical, i.e., effective organizations have attributes that are simultaneously contradictory, even mutually exclusive. Although projects are temporary organizations, the paradox lens has largely been omitted in their context. This paper is an attempt to rectify the situation. It introduces a framework of eleven paradoxical tensions, concerning priority, structure, and execution of projects, wishing that it would encourage future research on paradoxical tensions of project management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0c5427552d74e6086ab14d8512a68bc2022-12-21T23:19:42ZengUMinho EditoraInternational Journal of Information Systems and Project Management2182-77882020-01-01090153510.12821/ijispm09010121827788A framework for paradoxical tensions of project managementJuhani Iivari01234 University of Oulu Research into organizations has concluded that organizational effectiveness is paradoxical, i.e., effective organizations have attributes that are simultaneously contradictory, even mutually exclusive. Although projects are temporary organizations, the paradox lens has largely been omitted in their context. This paper is an attempt to rectify the situation. It introduces a framework of eleven paradoxical tensions, concerning priority, structure, and execution of projects, wishing that it would encourage future research on paradoxical tensions of project management. http://www.sciencesphere.org/ijispm/archive/ijispm-090101.pdf project managementparadox lensambidexterity |
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| title | A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management |
| title_full | A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management |
| title_fullStr | A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management |
| title_full_unstemmed | A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management |
| title_short | A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management |
| title_sort | framework for paradoxical tensions of project management |
| topic | project management paradox lens ambidexterity |
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