Project Business

Kaj U. Koskinen

Chapter 2 in Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies, 2010, pp 6-12 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the second half of the twentieth century, there was a shift from functional organization to project-based organization (e.g. Prencipe and Tell, 2001). This shift was caused by the changing nature of work from mass production, with essentially stable customer requirements and slowly changing technology, to the current situation in which every product supplied may be made to a bespoke design, and in which technological changes are continuous and rapid (Turner and Keegan, 1999). In that sense, project-based business is part of a wave of ‘new organizational forms’ that has entered most industries during the past two decades (Kerfoot and Knights, 1998; Packendorff, 2002).

Keywords: Team Member; Project Team; Functional Organization; Knowledge Worker; Project Team Member (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230298934_2

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