Making projects critical

Making Projects Critical is an edited collection contributed by a range of international scholars linking the area of project management with critical management perspectives. Recent debates have suggested that the problems inherent in project management in practice (cost overruns, delays etc.) reside in the prescriptive, functionalist and quantitative tradition inherited by project management from the narrow perspective of operations management. Making Projects Critical widens the scope of project management by considering project management within a wider organizational and societal context.

Making Projects Critical: An Introduction, S.Cicmil & D.Hodgson Are Projects Real?, S.Cicmil & D.Hodgson From Project Ontologies to Communities of Virtue, C.Linehan & D.Kavanagh Project Management, Organisational Change and Learning, M.Bresnen Problematizing Project Management, J.L.Thomas Projects and Prisons, M.Lindgren & J.Packendorff The Contested Object: On Projects as Emergent Space, M.O.Nocker An Actor Network Theory Perspective on IT Projects, A.Linde & H.Linderoth Reorganisation Projects and Five Uncertainties, E.Molloy & R.Whittington A Tale of an Evolving Project, C.Smith Understanding Power in Project Settings, N.Marshall The Management of Projects in the Construction Industry, S.D.Green Managing Projects in Network Contexts, J.Sydow Making the Future Perfect: Constructing the Olympic Dream, S.R.Clegg, T.S.Pitsis, M.Marosszeky & T.RuraPolley Conflicting Rhetorical Positions on Trust and Commitment, J.Sillince, C.Harvey & G.Harindranath Sensemaking as a Process within Complex Projects, C.Ivory, N.Alderman, I.McLoughlin & R.Vaughan Making the Management of Projects Critical, P.W.G.Morris