Dealing with deviations : Investigating coupling mechanisms in project management

Markus Hällgren · 2007

Summary

Projects are often run concurrently, with tight deadlines, and no slack available to absorb delays, so they are vulnerable for disturbances and dealing with project deviations are difficult.

Type: article
Published: 2007-01-01
Cited by: 4
References: 22
OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W17030160
Semantic Scholar: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:166256183

Keywords

Computer science, Coupling (piping), Process management, Business, Engineering

References

Designing Complex OrganizationsJay R. Galbraith — 1973
Made in America: Science, Technology and American Modernist PoetsEdward R. Fagan — 1989
Managing the unexpectedKathleen M. Sutcliffe, Marlys K. Christianson — 2001
Neo-Industrial Organising: Renewal by Action and Knowledge Formation in a Project-intensive EconomyEskil Ekstedt, Rolf A. Lundin, Anders Söderholm — 1999
The construction industry as a loosely coupled system: implications for productivity and innovationAnna Dubois, Lars‐Erik Gadde — 2002
The Organization Of HypocrisyNils Brunsson — 2002
Management paradigms for the new millenniumThomas Clarke, Stewart Clegg — 2000
Ambiguity and choice in organizationsCharles Perrow, James G. March, Johan P. Olsen — 1976
Educational organizations as loosely coupled systemsKarl E. Weick — 1976
Project-Based Organizations, Embeddedness and Repositories of Knowledge: EditorialJörg Sydow, Lars Lindkvist, Robert DeFillippi — 2004
A Behavioral Theory of the FirmRichard M. Cyert, James G. March — 1964
How Institutions FormTim Hallett, Marc J. Ventresca — 2006
Reforms, organization, and hopeNils Brunsson — 2006
Loosely Coupled Systems: A ReconceptualizationJames Douglas Orton, Karl E. Weick — 1990
Building theories of project management : Past research, questions for the futureJonas Söderlund — 2004
Decomposition of interdependent task group for concurrent engineeringShijie Chen, Li Lin — 2003
Managing Knowledge in Loosely Coupled Networks: Exploring the Links between Product and Knowledge DynamicsStefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe — 2001
A Behavioral Model of Rational ChoiceHerbert A. Simon — 1955
Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative TheoryJames D. Thompson, Mayer N. Zald, W. Richard Scott — 1967
A DIALECTICAL MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL LOOSE COUPLING: modularity, systems integration, and innovationStefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe — 2005

Cited by

Innovation in Project Management: Voices of ResearchersJoana Geraldi, J. Rodney Turner, Harvey Maylor — 2008
On the importance of liaisons for coordination of projectsMattias Jacobsson — 2011
Mechanisms of deviations: observations of projects in practiceMarkus Hällgren — 2009

Related papers

No related papers recorded.