Reconciling Order and Chaos in Multi-Project Firms
Empirical Studies on CoPS Producers
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Beschreibung
Successful project managers are those able to act as managers of uncertainty and atthe same time as managers of a complex network of people and organisations.However, pressures to cope with the environment bureaucratise project work, and theproject manager becomes a manager of papers and forms.This book shows the results of four year research programme in multi-project compa-nies aimed at understanding how companies are able to balance the forces leadingtowards ‘bureaucratisation’ and towards ‘chaotification’ of their organisational struc-tures.Some of the key findings are:• ‘Bureaucratisation’tends to be more harmful than ‘chaotification’• Companies need flexible structures in order to adapt to the inflexible wishes of thestakeholders• Companies build internal inflexibilities to compensate for external‘chaos’
Autor*in
Joana G Geraldi
Themen in »Reconciling Order and Chaos in Multi-Project Firms«
Bureaucracy Complexity Dynamic Flexibility Pojektmanagement Project Management Project Organisation