Paradox in Project-based Enterprise: What Paradox?
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A recent article in the California Management Review portrays independent film companies (and similar project-based enterprises) as a paradox for contemporary strategic management theory. Specifically, DeFillippi and Arthur, the authors of Paradox in Project-Based Enterprise, make the observation that “...in the film making example, no capital investments convert to fixed assets, no revenues are retained, no structure or positions are permanent, and no returns to learning accrue to future projects”. They find it paradoxical that temporary enterprises could sustain a permanent industry in which “...even the most successful organizations are organized with their future dissolution in mind”. The authors raise three key questions in this context:
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