Brookes, N, Sage, D, Dainty, A et al. (2 more authors) (2017) An island of constancy in a sea of change: rethinking project temporalities with long-term megaprojects. International Journal of Project Management, 35 (7). pp. 1213-1224. ISSN 0263-7863
Abstract
This paper examines the organizational phenomena of long-term projects. While research literature frames projects as “temporary organizations”, megaprojects have long initiation and delivery phases, lasting years sometimes decades, and deliver capital assets that are used for decades or centuries. Instead of short-duration activity within a fixed organizational context, these projects involve multiple temporalities, combining more and less temporary forms of organizing in the process of enactment. Using an example of a long-term infrastructural megaproject, a wind-farm, to illustrate the phenomenon, we contribute by articulating different temporalities associated with the delivery project, life-cycle; stakeholder organizations that set up the project; and special purpose vehicles through which it is delivered. Implications of these temporalities for project management research and practice are discussed with reference to understandings of risk and knowledge. We argue that focus on long-term projects and their multiple temporalities opens up new ways of thinking about projects as temporary organizations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Project Management. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Temporalities; Long-term projects; Stakeholders; Temporary organizations, risk, knowledge |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) > Institute for Resilient Infrastructure (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union CGA-TU1003-4 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 May 2017 09:13 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.05.007 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116948 |