The sixth IRNOP conference was held August 25-27, 2004 in Turku, Finland and hosted by Åbo Akademi University & Helsinki University of Technology.

Invitation (pdf)

Program (pdf)

Doctoral seminar (pdf)

The conference web-site

Authors and Titles of the Papers Presented at IRNOP VI

Neil Alderman, Chris Ivory, Ian McLoughlin, Roger Vaughan and Alfred Thwaites
Sense-making as a process within complex service-led projects

Tiina M. Apilo
Development projects as a means of strategy implementation
 

Tomas Blomquist and Janice Thomas
Project Manager’s Perceptions of the Motivation for, and Benefits, of Certification
 

Tomas Blomquist and Tim Wilson
Managing the multi-project firm: An educational perspective
 

Tim Brady, Andrew Davies and David Gann
Creating Value by Delivering Integrated Solutions
 

Christophe N. Bredillet
Beyond the positivist mirror: Towards a Project Management 'Gnosis'
 

Karin Bredin and Jonas Söderlund
The Change of Projectified Firms: Analyzing the HR Dimension
 

Edmond Condon and Francis Hartman
The Project Game

Terry Cooke-Davies
De-Engineering Project Management 

Bernard Cova and Robert Salle
Project Management and Project Marketing: ‘The Twain Shall Meet’ 

Lynn Crawford and David England
Mapping the Links between Project Management and Systems
 

Perttu Dietrich and Päivi Lehtonen
Successful strategic management in multi-project environment– reflections from empirical study
 

Mats Engwall and Anders Söderholm
Holding together while Tearing Apart - The life of the functional manager in projectified corporations
 

Pernille Eskerød and Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt
Do Implicit Core Assumptions of the Project Management Community Culture Restrain Intra-Organisational Learning across Project Managers?
 

Patrick S.W. Fong and Chun-yu Chan
Learning behaviours of project managers
 

Paul D Gardiner and Jim Carden
The 'benefit pipeline' approach to the strategic implementation of projects
 

Hans Georg Gemünden, Sören Salomo and Axel Krieger
Project Autonomy and Project Success: Follow Fashions or Evidence-based Recommendations?
 

Sven Gunnarson and Christine Räisänen
Multi-Project Organisations from a Methodological Perspective: Challenges and Rewards
 

Magnus Gustafsson and Kim Wikström
Managing projects through reflection
 

Magnus Hellström and Kim Wikström
The Missing Link – Management of Mass-customised Projects 

Nicole Hensman, Karel Valenta and Ali Jaafari
Project Management in Australia: State of Play and Trends
 

Markus Hällgren and Eva Maaninen-Olsson
Deviations and uncertainty in project-intensive organizations
 

Päivi Iskanius, Harri Haapasalo and Anna-Maija Alaruikka
Shifting the Operational Mode from Mass Production towards a Project oriented Business in the Steel Product Industry
 

Ali Jaafari
Project Management in 21st Century
 

Jasmin Koric, Bjørn Moseng and Asbjørn Rolstadås
Managing Distributed, Multi-Cultural, Multi-Objective Projects: A Case Analysis of Two R&D Projects 

Jaakko Kujala and Tuomas Ahola
A conceptual framework for analyzing the value and role of customer satisfaction surveys: an application to project-oriented organization
 

Henrik Linderoth and Annika Lundqvist
Learn not to learn – Paradoxical knowledge creation and learning in ERP-projects
 

Henrik Linderoth and Giuseppina Pellegrino
Theorizing the artefact – Understanding IT-dependent renewal projects
 

Stephan Manning
Managing Resource Dependencies in Project Networks: The Case of TV Production
 

Peter W.G. Morris and Adan Lopez-Miranda
Integrating the 'new product development' and 'project management' paradigms for better NPD performance
 

 
Mark E. Mullaly and Janice Thomas
Linking Personality & Project Success: Exploring the inter-relationship of psychological type and project manager competency
 

Ralf Müller and J Rodney Turner
The impact of principal-agent relationship and contract type on communication between project owner and manager
 

Andreas Nilsson
The Change Masters: Project Managers in Short-Duration Projects
 

Peerasit Patanakul and Dragan Milosevic
Competencies of Multiple-Project Managers
 

Mirja Peltoniemi, Tauno Jokinen, Jonna Mönkkönen and Janne Härkönen
Study of Direction to Extend Body of Project Management Knowledge in High Technology R&D Projects
 

Jarno Poskela, Pekka Berg, Jussi Pihlajamaa, Hanna Nordlund and Tommi Lehtonen
Strategic Perspective on New Product Development - Managing Front-End
 

Kaye Remington and Lynn Crawford
Illusions of Control: Philosophical foundations for Project Management
 

Inkeri Ruuska and Matti Vartiainen
Characteristics of knowledge sharing communities in project organizations
 

Abdullah Saeed Bani Ali and Frank T. Anbari
Project Management Software Acceptance and Its Impact on Project Success
 

Peter M. Storm and Rob E. Jansen
High performance projects - A speculative model for measuring and predicting project success
 

Pramote Suvimolteerabut and Ali Jaafari
Modelling and Optimal Management of IT/IS Projects Using System Dynamics
 

Jonas Söderlund
On the evolution of project competence: empirical regularities in four Swedish firms
 

Janice Thomas and Pamela Buckle
Living in the White Spaces Between the Lines: Exploring the Use of Gendered Logic Systems in Project Managers’ Discourse
 

Sampo Tukiainen, Risto Tainio, Johanna Nummelin, Antti Ainamo and Tapio Koivu
Impact of Cultural Dynamics on the Process and Outcome of a Global Engineering Project – a Case Managed by the Finns and the Poles
 

Anne Live Vaagaasar
Knowing in action – value creation by understanding project task solving from a socio-constructionist approach 

Maija Vihma, Antti Ainamo and Henrik Grönqvist
Future Playing Field in Machinery Supply: From Heavy Investment Projects to a Service Business
 

Robert James Voetsch, Denis F. Cioffi and Frank T. Anbari
Project Risk Management Practices and their Association with Reported Project Success