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Organizational enablers for project governance / Ralf Müller, DBA, MBA, PMP, Professor of Project Management, BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership & Organizational Behaviour, Jingting Shao, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute for Industrial Economics, China, Sofia Pemsel, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Project Organization and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organization, Denmark.

By: Müller, Ralf, 1957- [author.].
Contributor(s): Shao, Jingting [author.] | Pemsel, Sofia [author.].
Publisher: Newtown Square, PA : Project Management Institute, Inc., 2016Description: pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628250848 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Corporate governance -- Case studies | Project management -- Case studies | Social sciences -- Research -- MethodologyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
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.
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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.

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