Overview
- Presents advanced research on project, programme and portfolio management
- Offers an international and multidisciplinary approach to the topics
- Provides practical advice for applying the management and leadership techniques discussed
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering (LNMIE)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Setting the Stage of Self-Organizing
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Self-Organizing in Projects and the People Competences
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Self-Organizing and the New Technologies
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Self-Organizing in Different Types of Projects
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About this book
This volume brings together selected and extended papers representative of work presented at the 8th IPMA Research Conference, which was held online between 9th and 11th September 2020. It explores the topics of project, programme and portfolio management, and self-organizing in and through projects.
Offering international and multidisciplinary perspectives, this book answers questions such as:
- What is the impact of self-organization on organizational structures, processes, cultures and leadership?
- How can we define the transformative power of self-organization?
- What is the motivation of individuals to perform activities, to engage with others and organizations in order to get things done?
- Which kinds of leadership best support self-organizing in projects?
- What have disciplines like natural science, psychology, philosophy, sociology and management to offer in this respect?
- What are the cultural limitations and potentials regarding self-organization in projects and how do we deal with them?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Reinhard Wagner has been active for more than 35 years in the field of project-related leadership, in such diverse sectors as Automotive, Engineering, and Consultancy, as well as various not-for-profit organizations. As Managing Director of Tiba Managementberatung GmbH, a leading PM Consultancy in Munich/Germany, he supports executives of industrial clients in transforming their companies towards a project-oriented, adaptive and sustainably successful organization. Reinhard Wagner has published 37 books as well as several hundred articles and blog posts in the field of project, program and project portfolio management. In more than 20 years of voluntary engagement he served the German Project Management Association (GPM) as well as the IPMA in various roles and was granted Honorary Fellowship of IPMA and several of its member associations.
Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea is a Professor of Project Management and Management Information Systems at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. She has a Ph.D. in Economic Cybernetics and Statistics, on the topic of knowledge management systems for Research, Development and Innovation Management. Starting in 2014, she is also a Senior Researcher at Centre for Industrial and Services Economics, Romanian Academy of Sciences. Her research is focused on knowledge management systems, service innovation and technology-enhanced teaching and learning in project, programme and portfolio management. She has co-authored or edited more than 50 books and book chapters, and has published more than 350 papers in journals and conferences proceedings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research on Project, Programme and Portfolio Management
Book Subtitle: Projects as an Arena for Self-Organizing
Editors: Ronggui Ding, Reinhard Wagner, Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86248-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86247-3Published: 25 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86250-3Published: 26 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86248-0Published: 24 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2198-0772
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0780
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Project Management, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership