Project tragedies

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چکیده

Serious project failures can be tragedies. Borrowing the term from Aristotle, management researchers sometimes refer to a peripety when chaotic suddenly finds successful path towards completion. But Aristotle requires tragedies have sad ending, and in his Poetics, reversal (peripeteia) is paired with recognition (anagnorisis), which might closer transitory event projects. In late antiquity, we find voyage described as tragicomedy, Synesius recounts experiences of sailing Alexandria. The narrative stormy includes turning point resembling what modern understood peripety.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Project Management

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1873-4634', '0263-7863']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.04.001