The second IRNOP conference was held in busy Paris in 1996. The event was hosted by Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Paris, France, June 27-29, 1996

"Aspects of Society and Business Organized by Project"

Rolf A. Lundin, Umeå Business School, Umeå, Sweden
Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Christian Navarre, H.E.C., Montreal, Québec, Canada

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:

Gilles Garel, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Michèle Breton, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Marie-France Hanseler, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Thierry Boudès, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Florence Charue-Duboc, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Sihem Jouini, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Alex Kesseler, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

Institut du Management d'EDF-GDF, Paris, France
Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris, France
CRNS, Paris, France

PROCEEDINGS EDITORS:

Gilles Garel, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.

LIST OF PRESENTED PAPERS:

Conceptualizing a Projectified Society: Discussion of an Eco-Institutional Approach to a Theory on Temporary Organizations
Rolf A. Lundin & Anders Söderholm, Umea Business School, Sweden

The Project Concept: On the Ambiguous Key Concept of Project Management
Mats Engwall, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Modern Individuals Crossing Organizational Boundaries: An Individual Perspective on Identity Creation in Changing Organizational Environments
Monica Lindgren, Umea Business School, Sweden

Project organization and systemic knowledge processes: On the significance of fountains and deadlines
Lars Lindkvist, Jonas Sšderlund & Frederik Tell, Linköping University, Sweden

Resolution of project crises based on a systemic-constructivistic project management approach
Roland Gareis & Wolfgang Rabl, University of Economics and Business administration, Vienna, Austria

Innovation in Project Management: Using Industry as the testing laboratory
Francis T. Hartman, The University of Calgary, Canada

Learning through projects : meeting the implementation challenge
Karen Ayas, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Managing Renewal Projects in Different Learning-Cultures
Tomas Müllern & Katarina Östergren,Umea Business School, Sweden

Patterns of success and failure in transformation projects : A study of eight projects for developing a learning organisation
Barbro Anell, Umea Business School, Sweden

Fifteen years of experience in the teaching methods on project management
Daniel Leroy, IAE de Lille, France

Project coaching and project management-benchmarking: New instruments for organizational learning
Martina Huemann, Gernot Winker, Maria Egger & Christian Sterrer, Vienna University of economics and business administration, project management Austria

Project management learning programs within firms : managerial fashion or organizational learning ?
Thierry Bouds & Christophe Midler, CRG, Ecole polytechnique, France

Strategy and Quality in Projectified Aid Programmes : reengineering project-based management is not enough
John Russel-Hodge & Peter Hannam, University of South Pacific, Fidji Islands

Issue context and project content : managing embeddedness in organizational development projects
Tomas Blomquist & Johann Packendorff Umeå Business School, Sweden

Project Marketing - discontinuities, expectation and trust
Niklas Andersson & Jonas Sšderlund, Linkšping University, Sweden

Organising as Discursive Pratices : The example of Information Technology "Outsourcing"
Ali Yakhlef, Stockholm University, Sweden

Information Technology Project : complexity and management of conflicts
Rolande Marciniack, Institut Informatique de l'Entreprise, France

Project management and internal contracts
Mohamed Nakhla & Louis-Georges Soler, CGS, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

The project as an arena for innovation - images of projects and their implications
Helen Anderson & Anna Larsson, Linkšping University, Sweden

Managing creation and diffusion of a new expertise in automobile development
Franck Aggeri & Armand Hatchuel, CGS Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

The General Contractor in France : Transformation of the Client's Relationship and Redeployment of activities
Jacotte Bobroff, Latts, Ecole des Ponts, France

Engineering Practices and Concurrent Project Processes : a Contingent Approach Based on the Specific Case of a Major French Chemical Compagny
Florence Charue-Duboc, CRG Ecole polytechnique, France

R&D project management and their communication structures
Florence Gouesmel, IAE Lyon III, France

The Human resource allocation process when organizing by projects
Pernille Eskerod, Southern Denmark Business School, Denmark

Location of competencies in projects
Helen Anderson, Peter Gustavsson & Mikael Nilsson, Linköping University, Sweden

Recent trends on automobile product development practices in Japan, US and Europe
Invited speaker Takahiro Fujimoto, Tokyo University, Japan

Cooperative Buyer - Supplier Relations in Development Projects in Car Industry
Lydie Laigle, Latts Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France

Major European Civil Engineering Joint Ventures the British and French Models in Cooperation
Elisabeth Campagnac, Latts Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France & Graham Winch, Barlett School, UK

Supplier Partnership in New car Development : Necessity and Performance of Close Co-operation of Car Manufacturers and First Tier Suppliers
Gilles Garel & Alex Kesseler, CRG Ecole polytechnique, France

Trust in power I
Magnus Gustafsson, Abo Academy University, Finland

Managing the Conception of Information Systems : the Need to Design Contracts Adapted to the Institutional Context
Nicolas Mottis, Essec, France

Cooperation and negociation on interorganizational relations in construction
Anna Kadefors, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Notes:

Selected papers were reviewed and published in Lundin, R. A. & Midler, C. (eds.) (1998) Projects as arenas for renewal and learning processes. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0792381246. You can find more information on the book here.