...Kari-Pekka Tampio; Harri Haapasalo; Jere Lehtinen Purpose The research problem in this study is how a client (as a project owner) should organise early stakeholder involvement and integration in the front-end phase of a project. This study aims to create normative managerial statements...

...Rajenlall Siriram Purpose The objective of this research is to explore integration and transition activities in large industrial projects. The purpose is to (a) obtain a better understanding of the integration and transition activities between the project front-end (FE) and project initiation...

... et al. (2016) , contractual integration could be achieved in the relational contracts with role integrity, reciprocity, flexibility, prosperity of means, restraints of power, contractual solidarity and harmonization of conflicts. Davis et al. (2017) examined the prevalence...

... Project management Project planning Project systems Time Integration Project manager Metronome I remember when I started my post‐graduate studies in strategic management in the mid‐1990s. Back then Henry Mintzberg was an icon in the field of strategy and organization – well, honestly, he...

...Johanna Liinamaa; Magnus Gustafsson Purpose It has been argued that systems integration plays a central role when a company supplies complex technical and engineering intensive industrial projects. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of customer integration as part of systems...

... the temporary and the permanent organisation” (Artto et al., 2009, p. 11) and hence the organisational context of programs (Pellegrinelli et al., 2007, p. 51). Future directions for M&A research include post‐merger management (Fendt, 2007, p. 108) and corporate level integration management...