Winch, GM;
Sergeeva, N;
(2022)
Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective.
International Journal of Project Management
, 40
(1)
pp. 40-51.
10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.09.008.
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Abstract
Time is at the heart of project organizing because it is fundamentally about drawing on the present and the past to articulate desired future states, yet it has received relatively little explicit attention in the literature. The dominant systems paradigm in project organizing advocates an objective view of time while the actuality counter-perspective advocates a subjective view. Our contribution to theory in project organizing is to propose moving beyond these binary perspectives by arguing that project organizing is both goal-orientated and emergent through temporal structuring. We then develop this insight with the concept of project narratives as a form of future-perfect-thinking by which end states are articulated and resources are mobilized to achieve those desired end states. Drawing on an illustrative vignette, we then identify three different kinds of temporal work in project organizing: convincing oneself; convincing the team; and convincing stakeholders.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.09.008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.09.008 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Project narratives, Projectivity, Temporal structuring, Temporal work, Future-perfect-thinking |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10135221 |
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