Managing the institutional context for projects
Article Type: Abstracts From: Strategic Direction, Volume 28, Issue 10
Morris P.W.G. and Geraldi J.Project Management Journal, December 2012, Vol. 42 No. 6, Start page: 20, No. of pages: 12
Project management is widely seen as delivering undertakings on time, on budget, and on scope. This conceptualization fails, however, to address the front end and its management. Addressing the front end moves the discipline to a second, more strategic level. This article proposes a third level of conceptualization: the institutional level, where management is focused on creating the conditions to support and foster projects, both in its parent organization and its external environment. Management here is done for and on the project rather than in or to it. We show that management at this level offers an enlarged research agenda and improvement in performance.Article type: Research paperISSN: 8756-9728Reference: 41AC129
Keywords: Institutional theory, Institutions, Management of projects, Portfolio management, Program management
