Despite the ascendency of temporary organizations to common practice in many industries,
and their expansion as an area of academic inquiry, research evidence on their genesis …

Projects and other temporary forms of organizing are different from standard organizational
processes. As most leadership theories are based on the assumption of stable …

This article follows the call for more empirical research on leadership in different
organizational contexts. Organizations react to environmental dynamism and uncertainty by …

This paper investigates the relationship between a permanent organization and a series of
temporary organizations. It draws on an in-depth study of the process through which a …

We use a longitudinal examination of the production of a complex vessel to develop theory
concerning operational flexibility behaviors within interorganizational projects. We find that …

Following contemporary development in which most temporary, focused, and organized
endeavors can be regarded as a project and studied as a temporary organization, here we …

This article provides an alternative conceptualization of a project as a series of becoming
processes of imperfections. Through a longitudinal ethnography of a Research and …

We apply a situated temporal view to reveal the acute challenge actors face in making
changes when their project moves toward its final deadline. A situated temporal view takes …

In this paper we study the governance of product development projects in which multiple
parties with diverse technical knowledge together co-develop new products and bring them …

Shifting an organization's temporal order can be a key mechanism for accomplishing
organizational change, but it is also fundamentally problematic: instead of helping an …