Journal Article10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.10.007
Projects as interventions
Jennifer Whyte,Lara K. Mottee +1 more
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TL;DR: The project scholarship community needs to revisit how it conceptualizes a "project" to understand it as an intervention into nature: intervening in both existing situations and uncertain future as discussed by the authors , and this has implications for the skills needed by practitioners and their training, for the kind of projects that are conceived and delivered.
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About: This article is published in International Journal of Project Management. The article was published on 01 Nov 2022. The article focuses on the topics: Mindset & Scholarship.
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