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IRNOP 2018 Conference, RMIT Australia, 2019
Projects are strategic and encounter strategic issues in their operating context that have not be... more Projects are strategic and encounter strategic issues in their operating context that have not been addressed in parent corporate strategy. These strategic issues, emanating from changes in the operating context, require interpretation and an appropriate response through the emergence of strategy. This research looks at how projects address strategic issues in context and emerge strategy by applying the concept of strategic issues management, introduced by Ansoff. as a means to manage issues in real time during implementation of activities outside of the periodic strategic planning process. Emergent strategy in this research is viewed as a change response which enables projects to adapt in complex environments where alignment with parent strategy is not possible. An exploratory case study approach is used. The findings show that projects are learning episodes for strategic management and undertake a SIM process in order to form strategy in context when alignment is not possible.
Papers by Rodney Turner
International Journal of Project Management
Project Management Journal
This article investigates organizational design choices and their antecedents for the design of p... more This article investigates organizational design choices and their antecedents for the design of project-based organizations. Extant literature acknowledges the diversity of project-based organizational forms, but neither the particular configurations of organizational design dimensions nor the reasons behind their differences are widely addressed. Based on interviews in 12 project-based organizations in various sectors, this study identifies three common organizational design configurations of project-based organizations. It further discusses a range of internal and external factors, which can influence the choice of configuration. The findings are summarized in five overriding conclusions.
Project Management Journal
The Project Management Institute has commissioned the authors to conduct research into whether th... more The Project Management Institute has commissioned the authors to conduct research into whether the project manager's leadership style is a success factor on projects, and whether its impact is different on different types of projects. In this paper, we review the literature on the topic. Surprisingly, the literature on project success factors does not typically mention the project manager and his or her leadership style or competence as a success factor on projects. This is in direct contrast to the general management literature, which views effective leadership as a critical success factor in the management of organizations, and has shown that an appropriate leadership style can lead to better performance. Since, unlike most literature on project success factors, project management literature does consider the role of the project manager, we also review what it says about his or her leadership style and competence.
Journal of General Management
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use an organizational design perspective to determine the... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use an organizational design perspective to determine the scope of the state-of-the art of research into project-based organizations. Design/methodology/approach The paper follows a structured framework-based literature review approach. It uses an analytical framework from the organization design literature to assess 177 papers relevant to the design of the project-based organization that were published in four leading PM journals between 2008 and 2015. The authors determine which elements of organization design are covered in each paper and identify specific research themes for each of the element emerging from the literature. Finally, the authors examine the degree to which interdependencies among separate elements are addressed in the literature and discuss the most holistic papers in more details. Findings The results show that the literature on project-based organizations downplays broader organizational issues (such as organizational str...
International Journal of Project Management, 2006
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 0144619042000186077, May 13, 2010
The purpose of project organization is to create a cooperative environment. Contracts are the met... more The purpose of project organization is to create a cooperative environment. Contracts are the method by which the owner creates a project organization to employ resources to achieve their development objectives. Contracts should aim to produce a cooperative organization, aligning the contractors' objectives with the owners. A three‐dimensional vector (reward, risk, safeguard), adapted from the Transaction Cost Economics literature, is
... J. Rodney Turner ( coord. ); Editores: AENOR, Asociación Española de Normalización y Certific... more ... J. Rodney Turner ( coord. ); Editores: AENOR, Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación; Año de publicación: 2005; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-8143-432-9; ¿En qué Biblioteca Universitaria española puedo encontrar este libro? ( REBIUN ). ... pags. 25-...
... three key components of project-based management: the project, the management of the project,... more ... three key components of project-based management: the project, the management of the project, and the levels over which they are managed. The Project Previously, I used the following definition of a project: A project is an endeavour in which human, financial, and material ...
Las Personas En La Gestion De Proyectos 2005 Isbn 84 8143 432 9 Pags 25 40, 2005
... The handbook of project-based management : improving the processes for achieving strategic ob... more ... The handbook of project-based management : improving the processes for achieving strategic objectives. TURNER, J RODNEY. ...
Project management competence is based on knowledge and experience. The provision of formal proje... more Project management competence is based on knowledge and experience. The provision of formal project management education programmes is essential to the development of the new profession project management. In this paper we discuss the development of project management education using the United Kingdom as a base case. We then describe the current state of education in project management in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and investigate new developments in Austria and Switzerland, initiated by project management initiatives programm I austria and SwissPM. Finally we give an overview of project management education in project-oriented societies around the world. The paper derives from the work of the Global Working Party on Education and the International Project Management Association (IPMA) research initiative into the Project-oriented Society.
European Management Journal, 1997
It has been perceived wisdom that where an organisation is undertaking a portfolio of projects, t... more It has been perceived wisdom that where an organisation is undertaking a portfolio of projects, they should use a common approach to the management of all projects in the programme. Presumed benefits include comparable progress reporting, and resource ...
IRNOP 2018 Conference, RMIT Australia, 2019
Projects are strategic and encounter strategic issues in their operating context that have not be... more Projects are strategic and encounter strategic issues in their operating context that have not been addressed in parent corporate strategy. These strategic issues, emanating from changes in the operating context, require interpretation and an appropriate response through the emergence of strategy. This research looks at how projects address strategic issues in context and emerge strategy by applying the concept of strategic issues management, introduced by Ansoff. as a means to manage issues in real time during implementation of activities outside of the periodic strategic planning process. Emergent strategy in this research is viewed as a change response which enables projects to adapt in complex environments where alignment with parent strategy is not possible. An exploratory case study approach is used. The findings show that projects are learning episodes for strategic management and undertake a SIM process in order to form strategy in context when alignment is not possible.
International Journal of Project Management
Project Management Journal
This article investigates organizational design choices and their antecedents for the design of p... more This article investigates organizational design choices and their antecedents for the design of project-based organizations. Extant literature acknowledges the diversity of project-based organizational forms, but neither the particular configurations of organizational design dimensions nor the reasons behind their differences are widely addressed. Based on interviews in 12 project-based organizations in various sectors, this study identifies three common organizational design configurations of project-based organizations. It further discusses a range of internal and external factors, which can influence the choice of configuration. The findings are summarized in five overriding conclusions.
Project Management Journal
The Project Management Institute has commissioned the authors to conduct research into whether th... more The Project Management Institute has commissioned the authors to conduct research into whether the project manager's leadership style is a success factor on projects, and whether its impact is different on different types of projects. In this paper, we review the literature on the topic. Surprisingly, the literature on project success factors does not typically mention the project manager and his or her leadership style or competence as a success factor on projects. This is in direct contrast to the general management literature, which views effective leadership as a critical success factor in the management of organizations, and has shown that an appropriate leadership style can lead to better performance. Since, unlike most literature on project success factors, project management literature does consider the role of the project manager, we also review what it says about his or her leadership style and competence.
Journal of General Management
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use an organizational design perspective to determine the... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use an organizational design perspective to determine the scope of the state-of-the art of research into project-based organizations. Design/methodology/approach The paper follows a structured framework-based literature review approach. It uses an analytical framework from the organization design literature to assess 177 papers relevant to the design of the project-based organization that were published in four leading PM journals between 2008 and 2015. The authors determine which elements of organization design are covered in each paper and identify specific research themes for each of the element emerging from the literature. Finally, the authors examine the degree to which interdependencies among separate elements are addressed in the literature and discuss the most holistic papers in more details. Findings The results show that the literature on project-based organizations downplays broader organizational issues (such as organizational str...
International Journal of Project Management, 2006
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 0144619042000186077, May 13, 2010
The purpose of project organization is to create a cooperative environment. Contracts are the met... more The purpose of project organization is to create a cooperative environment. Contracts are the method by which the owner creates a project organization to employ resources to achieve their development objectives. Contracts should aim to produce a cooperative organization, aligning the contractors' objectives with the owners. A three‐dimensional vector (reward, risk, safeguard), adapted from the Transaction Cost Economics literature, is
... J. Rodney Turner ( coord. ); Editores: AENOR, Asociación Española de Normalización y Certific... more ... J. Rodney Turner ( coord. ); Editores: AENOR, Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación; Año de publicación: 2005; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-8143-432-9; ¿En qué Biblioteca Universitaria española puedo encontrar este libro? ( REBIUN ). ... pags. 25-...
... three key components of project-based management: the project, the management of the project,... more ... three key components of project-based management: the project, the management of the project, and the levels over which they are managed. The Project Previously, I used the following definition of a project: A project is an endeavour in which human, financial, and material ...
Las Personas En La Gestion De Proyectos 2005 Isbn 84 8143 432 9 Pags 25 40, 2005
... The handbook of project-based management : improving the processes for achieving strategic ob... more ... The handbook of project-based management : improving the processes for achieving strategic objectives. TURNER, J RODNEY. ...
Project management competence is based on knowledge and experience. The provision of formal proje... more Project management competence is based on knowledge and experience. The provision of formal project management education programmes is essential to the development of the new profession project management. In this paper we discuss the development of project management education using the United Kingdom as a base case. We then describe the current state of education in project management in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and investigate new developments in Austria and Switzerland, initiated by project management initiatives programm I austria and SwissPM. Finally we give an overview of project management education in project-oriented societies around the world. The paper derives from the work of the Global Working Party on Education and the International Project Management Association (IPMA) research initiative into the Project-oriented Society.
European Management Journal, 1997
It has been perceived wisdom that where an organisation is undertaking a portfolio of projects, t... more It has been perceived wisdom that where an organisation is undertaking a portfolio of projects, they should use a common approach to the management of all projects in the programme. Presumed benefits include comparable progress reporting, and resource ...
