Developing the Institutional Context for Projects

Authors

  • Joana Geraldi University College London (UCL) United Kingdom
  • Peter W. G. Morris University College London (UCL) United Kingdom

Keywords:

institutional context for projects

Abstract

Special Invited Paper

DEVELOPING THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT FOR PROJECTS

Author Biographies

  • Joana Geraldi, University College London (UCL) United Kingdom

    Joana Geraldi is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett,School of Construction and Project Management at University CollegeLondon (UCL) and will soon join the DTU, Department of EngineeringManagement. Joana has over 10 years of experience in project managementresearch and education at University of Siegen, Cranfi eld Schoolof Management and University College London. Her research hasearned APM and IPMA research awards. Her current research interest lies in creating afruitful context for projects, including portfolio and program management, decisions,impact of visuals in organizations, complexity and fl exibility. Joana has worked closelywith companies such as ThyssenKrupp Uhde, Voith and HP, and believes that there isroom for a more fruitful conversation between theory and practice, and the developmentof rigorous research with relevance to practice.

  • Peter W. G. Morris, University College London (UCL) United Kingdom

    Peter W. G. Morris is Professor of Construction and ProjectManagement at University College London (UCL). He is the authorof Reconstructing Project Management (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), TheManagement of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1994), with George Houghof The Anatomy of Major Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 1987) and withAshley Jamieson of Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy(PMI, 2004). He is co-editor with Jeffrey Pinto of The Wiley Guide to ManagingProjects (Wiley, 2005), and with Jeffrey Pinto and Jonas Söderlund of The Oxford Handbookof Project Management (OUP, 2010). He has published over 120 papers on themanagement of projects and has consulted widely to a large number of project-basedcompanies. He was Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM) from1993-96 and Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association(IPMA) from 1995-97. He received the Project Management Institute’s 2005 ResearchAchievement Award, IPMA’s 2009 Research Award and APM’s 2008 Sir Monty FinnistonLife Time Achievement Award.

References

Morris, P. W. G., & Geraldi, J. (2011). Managing the institutional context for projects. Project Management Journal, 42(6), 20-32.

Morris, P. W. G. (2013). Reconstructing project management. Chichester: Wiley.

Morris, P. W. G., Pinto, J. K., & Söderlund, J. (2012). Introduction: towards the third wave of project management. In Morris, P. W. G., Pinto, J. K., & Söderlund, J. The Oxford handbook of project management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Parsons, T. (1951). The social system. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

Parsons, T. (1960). Structure and process in modern societies. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

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Published

2022-05-20

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014): The Journal of Modern Project Management

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Developing the Institutional Context for Projects. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 2(2). https://journalmodernpm.com/manuscript/index.php/jmpm/article/view/164

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