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Studying Projects Processually
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DOI：10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.10.006.png)
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Projects are inherently processual, and many project management scholars have begun to mobilize a process view, albeit sometimes implicitly. This methodological article presents four distinct process perspectives (process as evolution, process as narrative, process as activity and process as withness) that are grounded in different ontologies. We contribute to the literature on project management by identifying the distinctive implications of each perspective for research designs, data collection and analysis and by exploring their potential contributions to project management knowledge, drawing on examples from the project management and organization studies literatures. We further show how different perspectives can offer insight into different facets of project temporality (linear vs. momentary; objective vs. subjective, past, present or future), and we explore the varied visual representations they give rise to. We also reveal the multiple ways in which the notion of performance may be treated in process studies (as outcome, as input, as performativity, as theatre, as accomplishment), highlighting new modes of thinking about what performance might mean. Finally, the paper considers the dilemmas and limitations of each perspective and proposes opportunities for future development.
Keywords:
process research
project studies
qualitative research
time
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