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An island of constancy in a sea of change : rethinking project temporalities with long-term megaprojects
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Brookes, Naomi J., Sage, Daniel, Dainty, Andrew, Locatelli, Giorgio and Whyte, Jennifer (2017) An island of constancy in a sea of change : rethinking project temporalities with long-term megaprojects. International Journal of Project Management, 35 (7). pp. 1213-1224. doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.05.007 ISSN 0263-7863.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.05.007
Abstract
This paper examines the organizational phenomena of long-term projects. While research literature frames projects as “temporary organizations”, megaprojects have long initiation and delivery phases, lasting years sometimes decades, and deliver capital assets that are used for decades or centuries. Instead of short-duration activity within a fixed organizational context, these projects involve multiple temporalities, combining more and less temporary forms of organizing in the process of enactment. Using an example of a long-term infrastructural megaproject, a wind-farm, to illustrate the phenomenon, we contribute by articulating different temporalities associated with the delivery project, life-cycle; stakeholder organizations that set up the project; and special purpose vehicles through which it is delivered. Implications of these temporalities for project management research and practice are discussed with reference to understandings of risk and knowledge. We argue that focus on long-term projects and their multiple temporalities opens up new ways of thinking about projects as temporary organizations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Project Management | ||||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0263-7863 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 35 | ||||||||
Number: | 7 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1213-1224 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.05.007 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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