Temporal not temporary: Using megaproject empirics to explore enduring projects

This paper explores the organizational phenomena that we have labelled as ‘enduring projects.’ Enduring projects possess many of the features of temporary organizations but have very long lifetimes: typically, enduring projects last for decades. We use empirics gathered in a study of European megaprojects to characterise the ‘enduring project’ phenomenon and we speculate on the usefulness of theory employed in existing ‘temporary organizing’ research to understand enduring projects.