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 Projects, Society, and the Dark Side
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_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