Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management

This comprehensive volume details the importance of integrating project management-related activities into the organizational hierarchy or network.

This comprehensive, multi-disciplinary volume clearly defines the importance of organizational project management and its role in the organization. It will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners focused on strategic management, project portfolio management, program management, project management, project governance, organizations and organizational design.In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the totality of project-related work at the organizational level, providing a view of organizations as a network of projects to be coordinated among themselves, integrated by the more permanent organization, and to move away from a focus on individual projects. This comprehensive volume provides views from a wide range of international scholars researching OPM at a cross-disciplinary level. It covers concepts, theories and practices from disciplines allied to management, such as strategic management, organization sciences and behavioural science. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners alike, who are looking to enrich their understanding of OPM and further investigate this new phenomenon.