Organisational routines in multi-project contexts: Coordinating in an urban development project ecology |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Associate Professor in the Management of Projects, The Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK;2. Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB;1. Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200030, China;2. Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK, Maurice Keyworth Building Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;2. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;4. BI Norwegian Business School, Norway;1. Department of Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, the Netherlands;2. Department of Architecture and Management of the Build Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands;3. Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Norwegian Business School BI Oslo, Norway;4. Department of Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands;5. Twijnstra and Gudde, Strategy Consultancy, the Netherlands;1. Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark;2. Department of Real Estate and Construction, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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| Abstract: | Project management literature have focused on either intra-organisational relationships or on vertical inter-organisational relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore inter-project interdependencies and coordinating in multi-project contexts by using the notion of project ecologies. We adopt an organisational routines perspective to explore the coordinating practices managing those interdependencies. The empirical material underpinning our findings were collected and analysed through a case study of an urban development district, new to both the project ecology literature and the organisational routines literature. The findings highlight the existence and importance of horizontal interdependencies in project ecologies, as compared to the more commonly studied interdependencies in vertical relationships within and between projects. The need for horizontal coordinating is outside project managers’ regular focus on steering vertical relationships. Accordingly, the routines to manage the horizontal interdependencies in project ecologies are different to those in more engineered routines that are often described in project management guidelines. |
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| Keywords: | Multi-project context Horizontal interdependencies Routines Project ecology Coordinating |
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