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Project Leadership in Becoming: A Process Study of an Organizational Change Project

Author(s) -

Packendorff Johann,

Crevani Lucia,

Lindgren Monica

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

project management journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.454

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1938-9507

pISSN - 8756-9728

DOI - 10.1002/pmj.21418

Subject(s) - pace , action research , action (physics) , process (computing) , project stakeholder , project management , opm3 , project charter , knowledge management , process management , space (punctuation) , leadership studies , project manager , sociology , project management triangle , public relations , business , engineering , political science , leadership style , computer science , geography , systems engineering , pedagogy , physics , geodesy , quantum mechanics , operating system

Drawing on the current research in general leadership, we propose that a process ontology is relevant and rewarding for project leadership studies. We argue that project leadership can be studied as the ongoing social production of direction through the construction of actors’ space of action, involving continuous construction and reconstruction of (1) past project activities and events; (2) positions and areas of responsibility; (3) discarded, ongoing, and future issues; and (4) intensity, rhythm, and pace. Through an ethnographic case study of an organizational change project, we show how space of action and hence the project direction are in constant flux and becoming.

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