Project citizenship behavior? – An explorative analysis at the project-network-nexus

Timo Braun, Gordon Müller-Seitz and Jörg Sydow

Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2012, vol. 28, issue 4, 271-284

Abstract: Studying projects as (more than) temporary systems from a behavioral perspective, we ask what kind of cooperative behaviors project staff perform that go beyond contractual requirements and how these behaviors can be characterized. Based on the concept of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and our own exploratory study, we re-conceptualize OCB as Project Citizenship Behavior (PCB) and employ the concept for interorganizational projects and the networks that they are embedded in. In this context, we discuss how citizenship behaviors within projects relate to citizenship behaviors which occur between a series of several projects, i.e. in project networks, and vice versa.

Keywords: Temporary organization; Project management; Interorganizational cooperation; Organizational citizenship behavior; Helping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2012.05.008

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