Imperfections-as-Practice: Projects as Becoming Processes of Imperfections
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Imperfections-as-Practice : Projects as Becoming Processes of Imperfections. / Xu, Sunny Mosangzi; Bogers, Marcel L.A.M.
In: Project Management Journal, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2024, p. 151-166.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Imperfections-as-Practice
T2 - Projects as Becoming Processes of Imperfections
AU - Xu, Sunny Mosangzi
AU - Bogers, Marcel L.A.M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Project Management Institute, Inc.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This article provides an alternative conceptualization of a project as a series of becoming processes of imperfections. Through a longitudinal ethnography of a Research and Innovation Project, our study uncovers that imperfections emerged as uncertainty, ambiguity, unknown, and emergence over time. These emerging imperfections enacted project managers to focus on retaining, reframing, exploring, and embracing the project in time. Our findings advocate an imperfections-as-practice approach, which extends the projects-as-practice perspective by focusing on emerging imperfections. Following this, we suggest imperfect project management thinking, which allows project actors to embrace imperfections and make a project become successful.
AB - This article provides an alternative conceptualization of a project as a series of becoming processes of imperfections. Through a longitudinal ethnography of a Research and Innovation Project, our study uncovers that imperfections emerged as uncertainty, ambiguity, unknown, and emergence over time. These emerging imperfections enacted project managers to focus on retaining, reframing, exploring, and embracing the project in time. Our findings advocate an imperfections-as-practice approach, which extends the projects-as-practice perspective by focusing on emerging imperfections. Following this, we suggest imperfect project management thinking, which allows project actors to embrace imperfections and make a project become successful.
KW - ethnography
KW - imperfections-as-practice
KW - in time
KW - over time
KW - project imperfections
KW - project success
KW - projects-as-practice
U2 - 10.1177/87569728231216412
DO - 10.1177/87569728231216412
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85180251337
VL - 55
SP - 151
EP - 166
JO - Project Management Journal
JF - Project Management Journal
SN - 8756-9728
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 378189598