SIG OFFICERS (2021-2022):
SIG board for 2022:
Alexander Kock, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Chair), kock@tim.tu-
Tuomas Ahola, Tampere University, Finland (SIG Chair-Elect), tuomas.ahola@tuni.fi
Per Svejvig, Aarhus University, Denmark (SIG Programme Chair, Treasurer), psve@mgmt.au.dk
Christine Unterhitzenberger, Leeds University, United Kingdom (SIG General Track Chair, Communications Officer), c.unterhitzenberger@
Monique Aubry, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada (Past Chair), aubry.monique@
Miia Martinsuo, Tampere University, Finland (Professional Development Support Officer), miia.martinsuo@tuni.fi
Past Chairs, but still active:
Graham Winch, Manchester Business School, UK.
Miia Martinsuo, Tampere University, 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
GT10_00 Project Organising – SIG General Track
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
Christine Unterhitzenberger , University of Leeds, c.unterhitzenberger@leeds.ac.uk
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
ST10_02 Project sustainability, stakeholders and digitalization
The merged track with the title Project sustainability, stakeholders and digitalization consist of three merged tracks, and below a description of each track.
- Title: Projects, Society, and the Dark Side, primary proponent: Luca Sabini, Leeds University, sabini@leeds.ac.uk. Other proponents: Gilbert Silvius, LOI University of Applied Sciences; Yvonne Schoper , HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin.; Julie Delisle, ESG UQAM; Lynn Crawford, The University of Sydney; Giorgio Locatelli, University of Leeds.
Our society is faced with several unprecedented challenges (climate change, pollution, and pandemics) 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 the 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), but I will also explore their ‘dark side’, which includes slavery, corruption, criminal organisations, money laundering, frauds, and other uncomfortable topics.
- Title: Exploring project digitalization and project datafication, primary proponent: Alejandro Romero-Torres, School of Management, UQAM, romero-torres.alejandro@uqam.ca. Other proponents: Alexander Kock, TU Darmstadt; Camilla Kølsen, Aarhus University; Carl Marnewick, Department of Applied Information Systems, University of Johannesburg; Natalie Smith, University of Queensland
This topic focuses on project and project management studies to understand the fast growth of digital technologies in organizations and project. We aim to understand the theoretical and managerial challenges related to this transformation from two perspectives: 1) Project digitalization where the project is a vehicle to lead the digital transformation. Research focuses on understanding digitalization as the ways in which social life and work are organized through and around digital technologies. 2) Project datafication where digital technologies also transform the project itself. Research focuses on generating new theoretical, practical, and methodological contributions to understand projects’ complexity.
- Title: Project Stakeholder Management, primary proponent: Francesco Di Maddaloni, University College London dimaddaloni@ucl.ac.uk. Other proponents: Martina Huemann, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Roya Derakhshan, SDA Bocconi School of Management; Rodney Turner, EuroProjex; Kirsi Aaltonen, University of Oulu.
Stakeholder research has an established position in the field of project studies. In recent years, a paradigm shift from the management of stakeholders towards management for stakeholders has been advocated. This has also been reflected in project stakeholder discourse as more attention is given in discussing stakeholder engagement instead of stakeholder management by focusing on different dimensions of this process; namely, stakeholder participation, inclusion, and democracy. The aim of this topic is inviting advocates of different stances of stakeholder theory to reveal their discussion to broaden our thinking on project stakeholder research and multistakeholders collaboration.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Luca Sabini , Hertfordshire University, l.sabini@herts.ac.uk
ST10_02 Project sustainability, stakeholders and digitalization
Our society is faced with several unprecedented challenges (climate change, pollution, and pandemics) 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 the 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), but I will also explore their ‘dark side’, which includes slavery, corruption, criminal organisations, money laundering, frauds, and other uncomfortable topics.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Luca Sabini , Hertfordshire University, l.sabini@herts.ac.uk
PROJECT ORGANISING SIG TRACKS
T10_04 Novel Research Approaches to Conduct Process and Practice Studies in Project Organising
Recent challenges such as the need to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, technology disruption, and crisis management arising from pandemics such as COVID-19 have resulted in the need for novel approaches to conduct research to advance project organising. Although project management researchers have adopted novel methods to conduct research over the past decade that have been presented at the PO SIG at EURAM conferences, the current challenges would require exploring other novel approaches to stay ahead. The aim of this track is to promote these approaches by encouraging researchers to present and discuss them at EURAM 2022.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 13: Climate action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Shankar Sankaran , University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Shankar.Sankaran@uts.edu.au
T10_03 Exploring project digitalization and project datafication
This topic focuses on project and project management studies to understand the fast growth of digital technologies in organizations and project. We aim to understand the theoretical and managerial challenges related to this transformation from two perspectives: 1) Project digitalization where the project is a vehicle to lead the digital transformation. Research focuses on understanding digitalization as the ways in which social life and work are organized through and around digital technologies. 2) Project datafication where digital technologies also transform the project itself. Research focuses on generating new theoretical, practical, and methodological contributions to understand projects’ complexity.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Alejandro Romero-Torres , School of Management, UQAM, romero-torres.alejandro@uqam.ca
T10_05 Project Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder research has an established position in the field of project studies. In recent years, a paradigm shift from the management of stakeholders towards management for stakeholders has been advocated. This has also been reflected in project stakeholder discourse as more attention is given in discussing stakeholder engagement instead of stakeholder management by focusing on different dimensions of this process; namely, stakeholder participation, inclusion, and democracy. The aim of this topic is inviting advocates of different stances of stakeholder theory to reveal their discussion to broaden our thinking on project stakeholder research and multistakeholders collaboration.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Francesco Di Maddaloni , University College London f.dimaddaloni@ucl.ac.uk