Project-based firms: new organizational form or variations on a theme?

By R. Whitley. 2006

403 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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In Finance

1. R. DeFillippi
2. Steven Casper
3. J. Sydow
4. J. Love
5. S. Manning
6. Andrew Davies
7. Tim Brady

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Andrew Davies
2. Tim Brady
3. S. Manning
4. J. Sydow
5. R. DeFillippi
6. S. Roper
7. Steven Casper
8. J. Love

In Strategy and Management

1. S. Roper
2. Tim Brady
3. Andrew Davies
4. J. Love
5. S. Manning
6. J. Sydow
7. R. DeFillippi
8. Alexander Kock

Citations in the corpus

• Explicating the dynamics of project capabilities (2016, background): “…and innovate over the long term, emphasising how learning embedded in stable routines and capabilities shapes future action and provides a source of valuable knowledge when applied repeatedly across multiple projects (Gann and Salter, 2000; Hobday, 2000; Prencipe and Tell, 2001; Whitley, 2006).”
• Project Networks: Governance Choices and Paradoxical Tensions (2016, background): “Whitley (2006) distinguishes between those project-based organizations that expect project participants to utilize standardized, separate, and stable roles and skills versus those that require project participants to utilize changeable roles and skills.”
• How do technology clusters emerge and become sustainable? Social network formation and inter-firm mobility within the San Diego biotechnology cluster (2007, background): “Much comparative institutional research has pinpointed the United States as a country with an ideal institutional infrastructure to support clusters of technology firms (Hall and Soskice, 2001; Casper and Whitley, 2004).”
• The project-oriented organization and its contribution to innovation (2018, background): “Such systems are characterized by a singularity of goals and outcomes (Whitley, 2006).”
• Openness, knowledge, innovation and growth in UK business services (2011, background): “For example, it has been argued that team working may facilitate knowledge integration and information exchange (Grabher 2001, 2002, 2004; Whitley 2006) and the development of trust and mutual learning (Creed and Miles, 1996).”
• Projects, paths, and practices: sustaining and leveraging project-based relationships (2011, background): “For example, comparative studies indicate that economic conditions, e.g. buying power of clients, and institutional conditions, e.g. labor laws or industry norms, may influence the emergence of collaborative practices (e.g. Djelic & Ainamo, 1999; Whitley, 2006).”