SIG OFFICERS (2020-2021):
SIG board for 2021:
Alexander Kock, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Chair), kock@tim.tu-
Monique Aubry, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada (Chair Elect, Treasurer), aubry.monique@
Tuomas Ahola, Tampere University, Finland (Programme Chair), tuomas.ahola@tuni.fi
Per Svejvig, Aarhus University, Denmark (General Track Chair), psve@mgmt.au.dk
Martina Huemann, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (Past Chair, Liasion with IPMA and PMI), Martina.Huemann@wu.ac.at
Miia Martinsuo, Tampere University, Finland (Professional Development Support Officer), miia.martinsuo@tuni.fi
Christine Unterhitzenberger, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Communication Officer), c.unterhitzenberger@
Past Chairs, but still active:
Graham Winch, Manchester Business School, UK.
Miia Martinsuo, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Hans Georg Gemünden, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Rodney Turner, SKEMA Business School, France
Christophe Midler, École Polytechnique, France
Brian Hobbs, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
SIG contact 2021: Alexander Kock kock@tim.tu-darmstadt.de
GT10_00 Project Organising – SIG General Track
The Project Organising track provides an international platform to share and debate topical issues in the management of projects as temporary organisations and their context in organisations or inter-organisational networks. This includes the management of single projects, mega projects, programs, and project portfolios, as well as project-oriented organisations, which deliver projects to external or internal customers, and project networks or multi-enterprise meta-organisations created to deliver projects. We invite conceptual as well as empirical papers based on quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. In our track, we run competitive sessions as well as development sessions, to help authors further develop their work.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 13: Climate action
Per Svejvig , Aarhus University, psve@mgmt.au.dk
PROJECT ORGANISING SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST10_01 Multi-level Perspective on Major and Megaprojects
Major projects are often complex endeavors, having many different structural arrangements and linkages with organizations and their wider institutional environments. Although research in project management has addressed the embeddedness of projects within their context, we need to understand the specificities of major and megaprojects’ institutional and organizational contexts, i.e. how actors collaborate, coordinate, and innovate in these temporary yet long-lasting, transformative and evolutive environments. This proposal raises the importance of understanding the multi-levelness of major projects; the interfaces among project actors, organisations and institutional levels; the governance issues, and the coordination of the people involved across these levels.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Maude Brunet , HEC Montréal, maude.brunet@hec.ca
PROJECT ORGANISING SIG TRACKS
T10_02 – The faces of the same coin: Social sustainability and the dark side of projects
The dark side is a key dimension in projects, and yet has not received the attention it deserves given its sustainability implications. At the global level, there are over 40 million modern slaves, Corruption delays delivery times and increases infrastructure costs, reduces the quality of infrastructure services. While topics such as corruption have been sparsely studied, others such as modern slavery are virtually absent. In the setting of “Project Organising” we intend to discuss topics that relate to the dark side of projects, including but not limited to slavery, corruption, criminal organizations, money laundering, frauds, and other uncomfortable topics.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Giorgio Locatelli , University of Leeds, G.Locatelli@leeds.ac.uk
T10_03 – Projects & Society … and the dark side
Our society is faced with a number of unprecedented challenges (climate change, pollution, corruption and now also the pandemic), that require a change in governments’, organisations’ and individuals’ ways of doing things. Given that more than one third of all human activities is based on projects, the mutual impacts of projects on economy and society are undeniable. The track aims to explore how projects and its management tackle these challenges at all levels (individual, teams, local community, organisation, industry, societies, and supra-national institutions) with considerations including but not limited to sustainable development, slavery, corruption, criminal organizations, money laundering, frauds, and other uncomfortable topics.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Luca Sabini , Hertfordshire University, l.sabini@herts.ac.uk