SIG OFFICERS (2019-2020):
SIG board for 2020:
Alexander Kock, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Chair), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monique Aubry, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada (Chair Elect, Treasurer), aubry.monique@
Tuomas Ahola, Tampere University, Finland (Programme Chair), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Per Svejvig, Aarhus University, Denmark (General Track Chair), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Martina Huemann, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (Past Chair, Liasion with IPMA and PMI), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Miia Martinsuo, Tampere University, Finland (Professional Development Support Officer), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Christine Unterhitzenberger, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Communication Officer), c.unterhitzenberger@
Past Chairs, but still active:
Graham Winch, Manchester Business School, UK.
Miia Martinsuo, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Hans Georg Gemünden, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Rodney Turner, SKEMA Business School, France
Christophe Midler, École Polytechnique, France
Brian Hobbs, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
SIG contact 2020: Alexander Kock This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
GT10_00 Project Organising - SIG General Track
The Project Organising track provides an international platform to share and debate topical issues in the management of projects as temporary organisations and their context in organisations or inter-organisational networks. This includes the management of single projects, mega projects, programs, and project portfolios, as well as project-oriented organisations, which deliver projects to external or internal customers, and project networks or multi-enterprise meta-organisations created to deliver projects. We invite conceptual as well as empirical papers based on quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. In our track, we run competitive sessions as well as development sessions, to help authors further develop their work.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 13: Climate action
Per Svejvig , Aarhus University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
PROJECT ORGANISING SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST10_01 Multi-level Perspective on Major and Megaprojects
Major projects are often complex endeavors, having many different structural arrangements and linkages with organizations and their wider institutional environments. Even though research in project management has addressed the embeddedness of projects within their context, we need to understand the specificities of major and megaprojects’ institutional and organizational contexts, how actors collaborate, coordinate and innovate in these temporary yet long-lasting, transformative and evolutive environments. This proposal raises the importance to understand the multi-levelness of major projects; the interfaces between projects, organisations and institutional levels; the governance issues and the coordination of the people involved across these levels.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Maude Brunet , HEC Montréal, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
PROJECT ORGANISING SIG TRACKS
T10_02/T12_07 - Action research, collaborative research and participatory research - engaged scholarship in project and business
Action research, collaborative research and participatory research are engaged forms of scholarship that in projects, innovation and business studies directly address the problematique of the ‘Business of Now’. There are important research methodological and project organizing issues to enhance effectiveness and value of these approaches that occasion this collaborative call for submission to joint track of the Project Organizing and Research Methods and Research Practice Interest Groups. We welcome contributions that address challenges in this type of research and shows ways to reconstruct and apply research and project practices, designs and philosophies to make approaches more rigorous, reflective and relevant.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Erik Lindhult , Mälardalen University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T10_03 - HRM on Projects and in Project Based Organizations: Projects as HRM Eco-systems for Multi-Actor HRM Co-Creation
Organizations have long been projectified, a trend taking hold in society more broadly resulting in a wider range of actors having an involvement in HRM on projects than heretofore. Theorists in mainstream HRM acknowledge the involvement of employees and line managers in HRM activities. In projects, a more diverse set of actors appears to be involved. We propose that projects can be seen as eco-systems in which interdependent actors exchange HRM services to achieve their goals and in the process, co-create HRM practices, resulting in possible tensions. We invite papers exploring HRM co-creation in projects and multi-actor project HRM eco-systems.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Anne Keegan , University College Dublin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
T10_04 - Projects & Society
Our society is faced with a number of unprecedented challenges (see UN Sustainable development Goals), that require a change in governments’, organisations’ and individuals’ ways of doing things. Given that more than one third of all human activities is based on projects, the mutual impacts of projects on economy and society are undeniable. The track aims to explore how projects and its management tackle these challenges at all levels (individual, teams, local community, organisation, industry, societies, and supra-national institutions).
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Luca Sabini , Hertfordshire University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
