The last several years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in project-based
organizations. This interest mirrors the diffusion of this organizational form across a wide
range of industries, well beyond those where organizations traditionally have been
organized by projects. To date, however, research on project-based organizations has not
yet offered a systematic investigation of the interactions between project-based organizing
and strategic management research. An examination of the existing literature indicates that …

This volume is designed to renew, stimulate and facilitate discussion about project-based
organizations (PBOs) and how they increasingly pervade business dimensions, from R&D
and new product development, to the production of complex capital goods and
implementation of organizational change across very different industries such as
management consulting, engineering or entertainment. Contributors analyze PBOs as firms,
units or networks of firms set up to complete a specific assignment, as well as address the …