Project-based ways of organizing are characterized by temporary structures, idiosyncratic work arrangements and non-routine, creative tasks. As such, projects hold great promise for learning and knowledge creation at the level of the individual participant, but their transient nature offers little support for the sedimentation of such learning within the organizational fabric. Project-based org...

Organizations are shifting towards project organizations thus creating a need to understand the factors that lead to effective project management. The present study explores effective project management in the context of leadership behaviour (concern for task and people) in more and less global projects. We identify factors based on leadership behaviour and propose a model for effective project...

A huge number of Knowledge Management (KM) approaches and solutions have been developed in the last 20 years. Companies are usually dealing with those theories and practices to make corporate knowledge explicit, collected, and organized into large and homogeneous knowledge systems based on repositories, groupware, wikis, portals, etc. According to this milieu, some practitioners believe that th...

There exists a strong correlation between efficient project management and competitive advantage for organizations. Therefore, organizations are striving to standardize and assess the rigor of their project management processes and capabilities i.e. project management maturity. Researchers and standardization organizations have developed several project management maturity models (PMMMs) to ass...

Project portfolio selection is very important subject of decision-makers in project-based organizations. The best assignment of resources to the most appropriate projects is necessary as financing projects with low benefit is just waste of organization's resources. However, existing project selection models pay not much attention the structure and special features of projects as a selection cri...

A project, especially for one in China, usually involves many organizations and each organization may have multiple projects. There is a clear social network relationship between these stakeholders in a project and the stakeholders’ behaviors are also subject to the structure of the social network. Based on an analysis of the social network, as a methodology that can be used to explain the rela...

organizations particularly in project structure pay specialattention to the efficient management and make a lot of efforts to achievethis goal by reducing delay in projects. gas transmission zones are amongthose kinds of organizations whose main activities are considered to be inproject structure. thus the significance of project management and thepathology of delay that imposes exorbitant cost...

projects execution is an important way to implement organizational strategies, especially in the project-based organizations. in such organizations, the decision-makers usually encounter a problem of the project portfolio selection. of course, regarding the decision-makers’ risk attitude, they tend to direct organizational resources toward projects with low threats and high opportunities. this ...