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Abstract
Stimulated by the growing interest in understanding the actuality of project managing and the need to better understand how front-end project workshops can be efficacious, we aim to turn workshops-as-practice into a meaningful object of inquiry. We operationalise Social Practice Theory by studying the intertwining of materials, skills and meaning in video-recorded micro-episodes in a front-end project workshop. Our findings illustrate how material elements provide sensitive assistance as professional skills are enacted in structuring the project-specific urban development challenge. Our theoretical, methodological and empirical approach makes the characteristic tension of practice between transformation and reproduction accessible for empirical inquiry and theorising from practice, thereby helping to develop project management knowledge that resonates with the experience of the project practitioner.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 161-175 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | International Journal of Project Management |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 13 Dec 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- Methodology
- Theory of Research into Project Management
- Projects-as-practice
- Social Practice Theory
- Video data
- Front-end workshop
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Through-life Engineering Services and Performance Assessment of Wind Turbines Gearboxes Using In-service Data
Alemzadeh, K. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/12 → 31/12/15
Project: Research
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Dr Kat Burger
- School of Management - Business School - Honorary Senior Research Associate
- Cabot Institute for the Environment
Person: Member, Honorary and Visiting Academic