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100 1 _aLINDKVIST, Lars
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245 1 0 _aProject organization :
_bexploring its adaptation properties
260 _aAmsterdam :
_bElsevier,
_cJanuary 2008
520 3 _aFirms investing in project organization often do so in order to become more flexible, adaptable and customer-oriented. This promotes the question of whether there are specific properties of project organization, which contribute to instilling such capabilities in a firm, and if so, what managers could do in order to bring them on board. I discuss how certain project organization features may be conducive to that end, and suggest that project-level processes display features of an evolutionary learning process, with pre-selection, variation and retention as distinguishable process steps. Similarly, at higher levels within project-based firms, projects can be used as experiments within trial-and-error based strategic learning. A case study of a project-based firm is used to illustrate the propositions and managerial implications put forward
773 0 8 _tInternational Journal of Project Management
_g26, 1, p. 13-20
_dAmsterdam : Elsevier, January 2008
_xISSN 02637863
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_cTiago
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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