The first IRNOP conference was hosted by Umeå School of Business and Economics

Lycksele, Lapland, Sweden, March 22-25, 1994

Rolf A. Lundin, Umeå Business School, Umeå, Sweden (Chairman)
Björn Otto Elvenes, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Yngve Hammarlund, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Kristian Kreiner, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:

Johann Packendorff, Umeå Business School, Umeå, Sweden, (Conference Manager)
Katarina Pousette, Umeå Business School, Umeå, Sweden

CONFERENCE SPONSOR:

Arbetsmiljöfonden (The Work Environment Fund), Stockholm, Sweden

PROCEEDINGS EDITORS:

Rolf A. Lundin, Umeå Business School, Umeå, Sweden
Johann Packendorff, Umeå Business School, Umeå, Sweden

LIST OF PRESENTED PAPERS:

"People Love Projects, Machines Love Monotony"
Barbro Anell, Umeå Business School, Sweden

"The Use of the Project Approach in Norway: An Investigation into the Diffusion and Adoption of the Project Concept in a Small, Modern, Welfare-Oriented Society"
Svein Arne Jessen, Norwegian School of Management, Norway

"The Learning Effects of Project Work as a Mechanism of Organizational Change"
Birgitta Södergren, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

"Organizing the XVII Olympic Winter Games: A Large, Cross-Functional Project with No Base Organization, Delivering a Complex Service"
Bente R Løwendahl, Norwegian School of Management, Norway (*)

"International Project Marketing and Management of Discontinuity"
Amjad Hadjikhani, Uppsala University, Sweden

Invited speach: "Hierarchies, Networks, and Projects"
Kristian Kreiner, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (*)

"The Invisible Side of Leadership in Temporary Management Systems"
Gary Gemmill, Syracuse University, NY, US and David L Wilemon, Syracuse University, NY, USA

"Social Movements and Social Momentums in Paper Industry Development: The Problem of Temporary Mobilisation. The Case of the Anjala Paper Mill"
Juha Laurila, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

"Tensions in Three Dimensions: A Method for Analysing Problems in Renewal Projects"
Tomas Blomquist, Umeå Business School, Sweden

"Enterprise Renewal Efforts and Receiver Competence: The ABB T50 and the Skanska 3T Cases Compared"
Eskil Ekstedt, FA-Institute, Sweden and Hans Wirdenius, FA-Institute, Sweden (*)

"The Standardization of the Temporary: Institutional Elements in Building Projects"
Anna Kadefors, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (*)

"Team Member Experiences in Temporary Organizations: The Case of New Product Development Teams"
Gloria Barczak, Northeastern University, MA, USA and David L Wilemon, Syracuse University, NY, USA

"The Role of Capital Investment Project Teams in Organisational Learning with Reference to the British National Health Service"
Jill Schofield, Aston Business School, UK and David Johnson, Aston Business School, UK (*)

"Implementation and Perversion of a Project Management System: A Learning Perspective"
John K Christiansen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

"Project Organisations and Management for Strongly Overlapping Project Phases"
Stefan Storholm, University of Åbo Akademi, Finland and Kim Wikström, University of Åbo Akademi, Finland

Invited speach: "Learning Project Management within Industrial Firms: Consequences on Traditional Organizations and Learning Processes-The Renault Case"
Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique, France (*)

"Legitimacy and Successful Project Management: Findings from a Case Study of the Fenno-Skan Project of Finland and Sweden"
Mats Engwall, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

"Off-Project Management: Implications from Observations of Product Development Projects"
Timothy L Wilson, Clarion University, PA, USA

"Networks in Design and Networks in Project Implementation"
Bo Hellgren, Linköping University, Sweden/Warwick Business School, UK and Torbjörn Stjernberg, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden (*)

"Two Perspectives on Organizational Learning: Exploring Re-orientation Projects in Different Organizational Fields"
Tomas Müllern, Umeå Business School, Sweden and Katarina Östergren, Umeå Business School, Sweden

"Temporary Organizations for Planning and Design of E6 Bypassing Uddevalla"
Alf Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

"Learning from Large Relocation Projects"
Robin Meikle, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK; Paul D Gardiner, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK and John E L Simmons, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK

"The Scope of Management Control: Controlling the Volvo 850– and SAAB 2000 Projects"
Lars Lindbergh, Umeå Business School, Sweden and Christina Sandström, Umeå Business School, Sweden

"A Theory of the Temporary Organization"
Rolf A Lundin, Umeå Business School, Sweden and Anders Söderholm, Umeå Business School, Sweden (*)

"Temporary Organizing: Integrating Organization Theory and Project Management"
Johann Packendorff, Umeå Business School, Sweden (*)

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