Organizational Project Management

Theory and Implementation

Elgar Introductions to Management and Organization Theory series

Ralf Müller, Professor of Project Management, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway and Editor-in-Chief of the Project Management Journal, Nathalie Drouin, Professor in Project Management, Department of Management, École des Sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM), Canada and Executive Director of KHEOPS, International Research Consortium on the Governance of Large Infrastructure Projects and Shankar Sankaran, Professor of Organizational Project Management, School of the Built Environment, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, and a core researcher of megaproject management, Centre for Informatics Research and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

This concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

‘This book contains a wide array of theories and processes. On an
organisational level, the information in this book is useful for implementing PM workshop as well as designing OPM systems.’
– Ren Yuan, International Journal of Project Organisation and Management

‘This fascinating book by renowned authors not only takes the organizational context of project management seriously, but also focuses on the interface as well as interplay between the temporary and the more permanent part of organizations. Discussing the value of the resource-based view and the neo-institutional approach as well as of governmentality theory for the analysis of organizational project management, the authors elaborate on the valuable link between project management and organization theory. They illustrate their ideas with the help of case studies. Reading recommended!’
– Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany