Project management methodologies, governance and success: insight from traditional and transformative research

289 Pages·2019·4.44 MB·English

by  Joslin, Robert

Project
Management
Methodologies,
Governance
and Success
Insight from Traditional
and Transformative
Research

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and Project Management
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Project
Management
Methodologies,
Governance
and Success
Insight from Traditional
and Transformative
Research
Robert Joslin
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Contents
Contents vii
List of Figures xv
List of Tables xvii
Foreword xix
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Author xxvii
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background and Research Context 1
1.1.1 Need for New Research Methods 1
1.1.2 Project Failure Rates and the Need for
Effective PMMs 2
1.1.3 G overnance (Project Governance) as an
Environmental Variable 4
1.1.4 Subjective Nature of Project Success 5
1.2 R esearch Focus 6
1.2.1 Aim and Objectives 6
1.2.2 Research Questions 7
1.2.3 Delimitations 8
1.3 S tructure of the Book 8
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Chapter 2 Use of Comparatives—The Basis for the
Natural-Science to Social-Science Comparative 11
2.1 Key Concepts 11
2.1.1 Comparatives 11
2.2.2 Natural- to Social-Science Comparatives 12
2.2.3 The Comparative Model 13
Chapter 3 P roject Management Methodologies, Project
Success, Project Governance, Contingency Theory,
Agency Theory, and Stewardship Theory 17
3.1 Project Success 17
3.2 Project Management Methodologies (PMMs) 20
3.2.1 C ustomization 21
3.2.2 S tandardization 21
3.2.3 C ombination of Standardization and
Customization 22
3.3 Project Governance 23
3.4 Contingency Theory—Theoretical Lens for the Prestudy
and First Two Parts of the Main Study 27
3.5 A gency Theory and Stewardship Theory—Theoretical
Lens for the Third Part of the Main Study 29
Chapter 4 Research Methodology 31
4.1 R esearch Philosophy 31
4.1.1 P aradigms as World Views 32
4.1.2 Paradigms as Epistemological Stances 33
4.1.3 P aradigms as Shared Beliefs in a Research Field 33
4.2 Approach, Strategy, and Choices 33
4.2.1 Approaches 33
4.2.2 Strategies 34
4.2.3 Choices 34
4.3 R esearch Process Sequence 35
4.4 R esearch Models 36
4.4.1 P restudy—Derived Model—Research Model 1 36
4.4.2 Q ualitative Research Model—Research Model 2 37
4.4.3 Q uantitative Research Model 3 38
4.4.4 Q uantitative Research Model 4 41
4.4.5 I ntegrated Research Models 1, 2, 3, 4 42
4.4.6 P hilosophical Triangulation 43
4.5 Prestudy (Study 1) 45
Contents ix
4.5.1 D ata Collection Instrument Development 45
4.5.2 Validity and Reliability 45
4.5.3 L imitations of the Research 46
4.6 Main Study—Qualitative Research (Study 2) 46
4.6.1 Data Collection Instrument (Semistructured
Interviews) 46
4.6.2 Sampling Approach 46
4.6.3 Data Collection 46
4.6.4 Data Analysis Method 47
4.6.5 Validity and Reliability 48
4.7 Main Study—Quantitative Research (Studies 3 & 4) 48
4.7.1 D ata Collection Instrument 48
4.7.2 Sampling Approach 48
4.7.3 D ata Collection 49
4.7.4 D ata Analysis Method 51
4.7.5 Validity 52
4.7.6 R eliability 52
Chapter 5 N ew Insights into Project Management Research:
A Natural Sciences Comparative
(Coauthored with Ralf Müller) 53
5.1 Introduction 53
5.2 Literature Review 55
5.2.1 Comparatives 55
5.2.2 Complex Adaptive Systems 59
5.3 Introducing the Comparative Model 60
5.4 Characteristics of a Natural-Science Perspective 63
5.4.1 C omplexity 63
5.4.2 Replicator 64
5.4.3 U niversal Darwinism 64
5.4.4 T he Comparative Model 64
5.5 Theory Building 70
5.6 Application of the Comparative 74
5.6.1 Lessons Intentionally Not Learned 78
5.6.2 Bricolage of Competing Methodology
Subelements (Units of Knowledge) 78
5.7 Discussion 79
5.8 Conclusion 81
5.8.1 Future Research 81