Making projects critical pdf

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Rent from DeepDyve. If you think you should have access to this content, click to contact our support team. Call for Papers for the 5th international workshop on critical studies of project based work, project management and the projectification of society and life at large.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing — arguably the most ambitious project in history — Martin Parker will be presenting on "Project Apollo: Space Age Management". Background 'Making Projects Critical' is the title of series of international workshops intended to provide a forum for research from a wide range of critical perspectives relating to all aspects of projects, including project management, project based organising and the 'projectification' of society.

Through the workshop, we hope to highlight and, where possible, remedy the theoretical and methodological limitations of traditional conceptions of projects and project management. In particular, the intention is to draw upon wider intellectual resources than the instrumental rationality, quantitative and positivist methodologies and technicist solutions which have been used traditionally to understand, implement and control organisational projects.

Call for Papers The broad range of themes addressed in past workshops include issues of power and domination in project settings, ethics and moral responsibility within projects, tensions between standardisation and creativity in project organisations, the limits to projectification and the dysfunctions of project rationality.

Contributions on any of these themes or related critical topics drawing on pragmatic conceptualisations, empirical ethnography, narratology or concrete case studies, would be welcome. A key concern of this workshop is to employ critical perspectives to analyse and evaluate the practice of project management and decision making as evidenced in the approval, governance and control of project work and project workers.

We particularly welcome critical contributions which seek to bridge the gap between abstract theorising and the practice of project management. We would like to encourage papers which address the widening range of sectors in which organisations and organising are increasingly structured around the project form by focusing on issues of context, values and power.