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The fourth IRNOP event was held in Sydney, Australia. The conference was hosted by University of Technology in Sydney.

Sydney, Australia, January 9-12, 2000

 

"Paradoxes of Project Collaboration in the Global Economy: Interdependence, Complexity and Ambiguity"


INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL:

Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney
Lynn Crawford, University of Technology, Sydney
Roland Gareis, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna
J. Brian Hobbs, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec
Rolf A. Lundin, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Paris, France
Peter W.G. Morris, Centre for Research in the Management of Projects, UMIST
Jeffrey Pinto, Penn State University, Erie, PA, USA

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:

Lynn Crawford, University of Technology, Sydney
Kaye Remington, University of Technology, Sydney
Kerry Costello, University of Technology, Sydney
Rachel Welsh, University of Technology, Sydney
Katrina Erwin, National Office, Australian Institute of Project Management
Janine Revay, University of Calgary, Canada

PROCEEDINGS EDITORS:

Lynn Crawford, University of Technology, Sydney
Cecelia F Clarke, University of Technology, Sydney

LIST OF PRESENTED PAPERS:

Project Management and Pressure for Change – Exploring "Health Care Chain Projects". Björn Trägårdh, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden

Styles of Coordination with Subcontractors: Perceived Uncertainty and Ambiguity, and Shared Experiences. R. Marciniak, CNAM-IIE, AFITEP, & F. Rowe, Université de Nantes, LAGON

Temporary Organisations and the Greening of Business. Johan Sandstrom, Department of Business Administration, Umea School of Business and Economics, Sweden

Towards Coherent Project Management. Kurt A. Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Michael R. Lissack, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence & Johan Roos, IMD

Discovering The principles of Project Management: An interim report on the first five years of an investigation into the practices of project management in large projectised private-sector companies. Terence J. Cooke-Davies, Managing Director, Human Systems Limited, PhD Student, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Is Standardisation Applicable To Project Managers Of Multi-Project Companies? Sven Gunnarson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Anneli Linde, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & David Loid, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Organisational Competence in Project Management: Researching the Other Dimension. Ken Stevenson, MBus, University of Southern Queensland

Perpetual Product Development -A Projectised Organisational Phenomenon? Jan Bodin, Umeå University, Sweden

Post-Merger Integration: A Temporary Organisational Implosion. Ranja Frommer, Åbo Akademi University/PBI, Leena Ilmola, Helsinki University of Technology & Greg Skulmoski, University of Calgary

Project 2000 – A University/Industry Alliance to Develop Competence for the Projectised Business Asbjørn Rolstadås, Norwegian University of Science and Technology & M.Sc Halvard S. Kilde, Metier Scandinavia

Project Management Fee Structures: A Research Thesis. Chivonne Watt, University of Technology, Sydney and Human Systems Pty Limited.

Projectisation of Global Firms – Problems, Expectations and Meta-Project Management. Rolf A. Lundin, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden & Ralph Stablein, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Successful Practices and Methods for Project Sales and Marketing. Kai Koskinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Transitions in Project Management: Linking Temporary and Permanent Organisations. Barbro I. Anell, Umeå School of Business and Economics & Timothy L. Wilson, Marketing Department, Clarion University

Applying Features of Project Management Life Cycles to the Management of Strategic Business Alliances, Andrew Durbidge, MPM, AAIPM, Principal, Fides Australia Pty Limited & Alan Stretton, University of Technology, Sydney

Life Cycle Project Management: A Strategic Alliance Approach, Kitsana Manivong, The University of Sydney & Michel Chaaya, The University of Sydney

Managing International Technology Transfer in Large Inter-organisational Project Structures, Magnus Ahlström, IMIE/Linköping University, Christina Grundström, IMIE/Linköping University, & Helén Anderson, IMIE/Linköping University

Post-Merger Integration: A Temporary Organisational Implosion, Ranja Frommer, Åbo Akademi University/PBI, Leena Ilmola, Helsinki University of Technology & Greg Skulmoski, University of Calgary

Principles, Practice and Performance of Project Alliancing: Reflecting On The Wandoo B Development Project, Gameson, R., Chen S.E., McGeorge, D. and Elliot, T., Department of Building, University of Newcastle, Australia

Worse Than the Tower of Babel – the Opacity of the Other’s Concepts: A Note upon Oriental and Occidental Paradigms, John Kidd, Aston Business School, & Li Xue, Aston Business School, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

Competencies of the Project-Oriented Society, Roland Gareis, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna

Complexity within International Projects, Tina Karrbom, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden & Marcus Lindahl, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Managing Diversity Strategically in a Project-Based World, Laurie P. Milton, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary & Andrew P. Milton, Kelman Technologies Inc. (Calgary, Canada)

On Learning and Control – Competing Paradigms or Co-Existing Requirements for Managing Projects in Ambiguous Situations?, Janice Lynne Thomas, University of Calgary & Jimmy Tjäder, Lecturer, University of Linköping

Project Manager – Profession /Position / Activity? Bill Zwerman,  Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

Stress and Satisfaction in a World of Projects, Lynn Crawford, University of Technology, Sydney

The Role of Trust in Project Success, Francis Hartman & Elke Romahn, University of Calgary

Consensus and Politics in Project Network Relationships: Four Case Studies in Sweden, Maria Larson and Ewa Wikström, School of Economics and Commercial Law at Göteborg University

Examination of Relationships between Client, Project, Project Team, Documentation and Variation Claims on Projects, Deepak Bajaj, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney Australia

Standards and Standardisation as Creative Forces in Innovation Projects – the Development of a State-Of-The-Art Consumer Software, Christina Grundström, Linköping University, Sweden & Helén Anderson, Linköping University, Sweden

The Potential of Group Decision Support Tools in the Coherent Management of Complex Projects, Kurt A. Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, USA, Andrew Tait, Strategic Leadership Sciences (Europe), UK & Michael R. Lissack, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, USA

Towards a Transferable Methodology for Managing Strategic Change by Projects, Lynn Crawford and Kerry Costello, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

A Conceptual Framework for Project Product Management in Project Companies, Karlos A. Artto, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland, Marko Arenius, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland, Mika Lahti, Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland & Jukka Meklin, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland

Evaluation of a Research and Development Process: How to Achieve the Next Level of Product Development, Thomas L. Kroenke - Quartz Medical Inc. & Michael W. Usrey, Ph.D., P.E. - University of Colorado

Inter-Project Learning: Strategies and Forms, Jonas Söderlund, IMIE, Linköping University, Sweden, Marc Antoni, IMIE, Linköping University, Sweden & Charlotte Björkegren, IMIE, Linköping University,  Sweden

Program Management and Project Portfolio Management: New Competences of Project-Oriented Companies, Roland Gareis, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna

Project Assessment Standards in Multi-Project Contexts – Dealing with the Uncertain and Communicating the Tacit, José Bertil González Guve, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm & Erik Piñeiro, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Project Management and Pressure for Change – Exploring "Health Care Chain Projects", Björn Trägårdh, School of Economics and Commercial Law,Göteborg University

Project Management in a Global Multi-Project – On the Use of Earned Value Management in the Swedish Gripen Project, Sven Antvik, Royal Institute of Technology and the National Defence College, Sweden

Project Organisations that Learn – Understanding the Barriers to Organisational Learning in Project Environments – A Case Study, Neil Dougan, New Zealand 

Project Risk Management Applications in Industry, Petri Pitkänen, Helsinki University of Technology,  Finland, Karlos A. Artto, Helsinki University of Technology,  Finland & Kalle Kähkönen, VTT Building Technology, Finland

Projects versus Permanent Operations – Development Projects in Social Service Organisations, Staffan Johansson, Mikael Löfström, Östen Ohlsson, School of Economics and Commercial Law and School of Public Administration, Göteborg University, Sweden

Successful Practices and Methods for Project Sales and Marketing, Kai Koskinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 

The Multiproject Matrix: A Neglected Phenomenon, Mats Engwall, Fenix/IMIT, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden & Anna Sjögren Källqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 

Evaluation of a Research and Development Process: How to Achieve the Next Level of Product Development, Thomas L. Kroenke - Quartz Medical Inc. & Michael W. Usrey, Ph.D., P.E. - University of Colorado

Benchmarking the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Peter W.G. Morris, Centre for Research in the Management of Projects, UMIST 

The Profession Of Project Management: The Role Of Professional Institutions And A Map Of The Body Of Knowledge, J Rodney Turner, Department of Business and Organization, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

 


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