Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management

Description

In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the totality of project-related work at the organizational level, providing a view of organizations as a network of projects to be coordinated among themselves, integrated by the more permanent organization, and to move away from a focus on individual projects. This comprehensive volume provides views from a wide range of international scholars researching OPM at a cross-disciplinary level. It covers concepts, theories and practices from disciplines allied to management, such as strategic management, organization sciences and behavioural science. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners alike, who are looking to enrich their understanding of OPM and further investigate this new phenomenon.

Shankar Sankaran is Professor of Organisational Project Management (OPM) in Australia at the University of Technology Sydney. Shankar teaches advanced courses in the Master of Project Management Program including key features of OPM. He was a Chief Investigator of two Australian Research Council funded research grants. He is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Project Management. Shankar comes to academia after several years of experience as a major project manager and technical director in Yokogawa Electric Asia. He is currently involved in setting up a megaproject management research centre at his university. Ralf Muller is Professor of Project Management and former Associate Dean at BI Norwegian Business School. He lectures and researches in leadership, governance, organizational project management and research methods. Awards he has received include the 2016 Fellow of the Institute Award of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the 2015 PMI Research Achievement Award, and the 2012 IPMA Research Award. He is Senior Editor of the Project Management Journal. Before joining academia, he spent thirty years in consulting with large enterprises and governments in more than fifty different countries, including as Worldwide Director of Project Management at the NCR Corporation. Nathalie Drouin is the Executive Director of KHEOPS, an International Research Consortium on Large Infrastructure Projects, the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, a Professor at the Department of Management and Technology in the School of Management at Universite du Quebec at Montreal (ESG UQAM) and Adjunct Professor (Honorary Appointment) at University of Technology, Sydney. She is a former Associate Dean of Research at ESG UQAM and a former Director of the Graduate Project Management Programs, ESG UQAM. She teaches initiation and strategic management of projects in the Graduate Project Management Programs.

'This book is both serious and inspiring; its presentation of organizational project management will satisfy even the most demanding readers. The very diverse chapter contents highlight the scope and importance of this new field of research and professional practice. Kudos to the three editors, who were able to recruit the most respected experts in this domain!' Mario Bourgault, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada 'The Cambridge Handbook on Organisational Project Management sets a new standard of knowledge for anyone involved in the challenge of implementing the concept of a project-based organization by integrating all project, program and portfolio related activities within the entire organization.' Yvonne Schoper, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin and Member of the Presidential Advisory Board of GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Projektmanagement e.V 'I would argue that this book makes a valuable contribution with new materials for those interested in OPM and project work. It takes an organisational-level perspective in the main and fills a number of gaps in the current book-level literature. ... I would recommend that this book be considered as a serious reference book and that for many students and practitioners that this would be a highly valuable resource.' Derek Walker, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business