Organizational structuring and project team structuring in integrated product development project

Rupak Rauniar and Greg Rawski

International Journal of Production Economics, 2012, vol. 135, issue 2, 939-952

Abstract: For a superior project result, integrated product development (IPD) project need to have stage-specific management approaches where the front-end structuring supports and strengthens the management of the project and the team during the execution stages. In the current study we focus on relationships on the organizational level variable during the front-end stage of the project, organizational structuring, with a project execution level variable, project team structuring to study the impact on product design glitches and project performance in the concurrent project environment. We hypothesize that managing the overall product development projects with integrated organizational structuring at the front stage and project team structuring during the development and project implementation stages can lead to reduced product glitches which can enhance the overall IPD project performance. We test our hypothetical model using data collected from the US automotive industry. Our data supports all the three proposed hypotheses. Discussion and implication of the empirical results, limitations of the current study, and recommendations for future studies are also provided.

Keywords: Organizational structuring; Project structuring; Cross-functional team; Heavyweight manager; Product design glitches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.11.009

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