TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond Failure and Success
T2 - A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice
AU - Marrewijk, Alfons van
AU - Stjerne, Iben
AU - Sydow, Jörg
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This editorial scrutinizes the dichotomy of a project’s success and failure, which, in our opinion is too rigid, inflexible, and unnuanced. The aim of this special issue is to nuance this dichotomy by moving toward a process view on how imperfection is brought about in projects. We introduce and discuss five topics important for such a process view: (1) improvisation, (2) temporality, (3) power and politics, (4) transition, and (5) intentionality. We argue that a holistic, processual view of imperfections premises emergence and continuous learning and judgments of the project both in and over time. All five articles in this special issue deal with at least one of the discussed themes of our proposed process view on imperfect projects.
AB - This editorial scrutinizes the dichotomy of a project’s success and failure, which, in our opinion is too rigid, inflexible, and unnuanced. The aim of this special issue is to nuance this dichotomy by moving toward a process view on how imperfection is brought about in projects. We introduce and discuss five topics important for such a process view: (1) improvisation, (2) temporality, (3) power and politics, (4) transition, and (5) intentionality. We argue that a holistic, processual view of imperfections premises emergence and continuous learning and judgments of the project both in and over time. All five articles in this special issue deal with at least one of the discussed themes of our proposed process view on imperfect projects.
KW - failure
KW - imperfect project
KW - learning
KW - process
KW - success
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186588765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/87569728241237443
DO - 10.1177/87569728241237443
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85186588765
SN - 8756-9728
VL - 55
SP - 131
EP - 138
JO - Project Management Journal
JF - Project Management Journal
IS - 2
ER -