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Please consider attending the following PDW at the 2009 AOM Conference:

Towards a project-based view of strategy and innovation:

moving beyond project management II

Program Session #: 111 | Submission: 13926 | Sponsor(s): (TIM, OMT, MC, BPS)

Scheduled: Friday, Aug 7 2009 5:10PM - 8:10PM

Hyatt Regency <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> in Comiskey

Presenters and discussants:

-Andrew Davies (<st1:placename w:st="on">Imperial</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>)

-Andreas Wald (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">European</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

-Andreas Schwab (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Iowa</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

-<st1:personname w:st="on">Stephan Manning</st1:personname> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Duke</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

-Gino Cattani (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

-Joseph Lampel (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

Organizer:

Florian Täube (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">European</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

Agenda:

1.      Paper presentations

a.       Knowledge and Learning in Projects (3 papers)

b.      Project Networks, Embeddedness and Team Formation (3 papers)

2.      Paper Discussion (by Gino Cattani and Joseph Lampel)

3.      Roundtable groups

4.      Open forum and closing discussion

Building on a successful symposium at AOM 2008 in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city>, this PDW investigates the business of project-based organizations (PBOs), in the growing middle ground between market and firm. A PBO can be a firm, unit, or network of firms set up to complete an assignment. We address the evolution from traditional operations-driven project management to the strategic role of projects in delivering innovation and organizational change – and the implications for research and teaching.

Projects pervade many business dimensions from R&D and new product development, to the production of complex capital goods and implementing organizational change, and they occur in diverse industries like management consulting, engineering or entertainment. The change from conventional project management focused on operations (meeting time, cost and quality objectives) towards an increasingly strategic role of projects in driving innovation requires a new approach by management scholars to research – and teach – the 'business of projects'. Simultaneously, this new development presents a great opportunity for scholars to shape this emerging field of research on PBOs.

One aim of the PDW is to identify promising research questions for the way ahead, e.g. the role of learning, capability building, networks, or performance drivers at different levels, e.g. project team, organization, project network, and interaction effects between these levels. Hence, one core questions to be discussed is: What theories are most suitable to investigate PBOs and how different theories can contribute to it? This PDW brings together scholars with different lenses on and approaches to the business of projects and dedicates ample time for small-group roundtable discussions of these different views.

We look forward to seeing you in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>. 

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Prof. Dr. Florian A. Täube

Assistant Professor of Growth Management

Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE)

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