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Book SynopsisIdentifying the origins of innovation and project management, this unique Handbook explains why and how the two fields have grown and developed as separate disciplines, highlighting how and why they are now converging. It explores the theoretical and practical connections between the management of innovation and projects, examining the close relationship between the disciplines.
Chapters introduce new research examining how organisations manage innovative projects to compete in global markets and tackle some of the immense economic, social and environmental challenges facing societies in the 21st century. Leading scholars in the field examine the management of innovative projects in various forms and across diverse contexts, including R&D, new product development, agile, collaboration, trust and ambidexterity. The Handbook outlines efforts to cross-fertilise ideas from innovation and project management, share and create new concepts, and borrow theories from other disciplines to assist empirical research and develop a more integrated research agenda, offering practical guidance on how to manage innovative projects in real-world settings.
Comprehensive and invaluable, this Handbook is a critical read for innovation management and project management scholars and students. Practitioners in both fields interested in developing their professional skills and acquiring thought leadership in a converging field will also benefit greatly from reading this.
Trade Review‘We live in a world of projects. This Handbook illuminates that world, demonstrating how to better catalyze, organize, and sustain the innovation processes embedded in project management. Reuniting separate streams of project and innovation management while incorporating the latest thinking on ecosystems and digital transformation, the Handbook will reinvigorate current experts while exciting newcomers. Highly recommended.’ -- John Paul MacDuffie, University of Pennsylvania, US
‘This Handbook
provides an essential reference in the field of Innovation Project Management, grounded on a comprehensive synthesis of past works and opening stimulating perspective for further research. It shows how innovation project management contributes to key questions in management science and addresses critical issues for companies and society.’ -- Pascal Le Masson, Mines Paris – PSL University, France
‘Whether using projects to manage innovation or seeking to make any project more innovative, this essential Handbook
builds on a diverse, scholarly foundation to bring a wealth of practical, integrated insights for researchers and managers. Having worked in this area for 30 years, I still learned much by reading it.’ -- Tyson Browning, Texas Christian University (TCU), US
‘Our world's grandest challenges urgently need transformative innovations that only major programmes can deliver at scale. This Handbook provides an essential reference for how we can better adapt and vary project thinking to make such advances in ways that better serve those we seek to uplift.’ -- Daniel Armanios, BT Professor of Major Programme Management, University of Oxford, UK
‘This Handbook provides an integrative perspective on decades of separate innovation and project management research. The introductory chapter offers novel frameworks that guide but are also informed by 22 following chapters contributed by global experts. It will be a trusted reference as well as a guide for further integrative research.’ -- Robert A. Burgelman, Stanford Graduate School of Business, US
‘The time is ripe to connect the study of projects and their management more tightly to other domains of management research. The new Elgar Handbook on Innovation and Project Management
does so with regard to perhaps the most obvious but also by far most important field: innovation management. The Handbook excels in doing so, not only with regard to past and present, but also the future of research in both fields of study.’ -- Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Karl T. Ulrich 1 Introduction: building bridges between innovation and project management research 1 Andrew Davies, Sylvain Lenfle, Christoph H. Loch and Christophe Midler PART I CONVERGING AND INTEGRATING 2 Bridging project studies and innovation studies: a meta-theoretical approach and research agenda 36 Joana Geraldi and Jonas Söderlund 3 Corporate entrepreneurship and project management 60 Valentine Georget and Rémi Maniak 4 The converging nature of innovation and project management: process, contingency and strategy 80 Vered Holzmann and Aaron Shenhar 5 It’s all a bit fuzzy? The front end in project and innovation management 101 Michael A. Lewis, Joseph W. Harrison and Jens K. Roehrich 6 “A disputed project identity”: ambiguity and hybridization of exploration and exploitation in complex projects 125 Stéphanie Tillement, Frédéric Garcias and Florence Charue-Duboc 7 Innovation projects in a global world: bridging global innovation management and project management 149 Christophe Midler and Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini PART II BUILDING AND EXTENDING 8 Corporate innovation strategies and multi-project management on lineages and ambidextrous programmes 168 Rémi Maniak and Christophe Midler 9 Exploratory projects: the state of the art and a research agenda 186 Sylvain Lenfle 10 Managing unforeseeable uncertainty through learning 201 Christoph H. Loch, Svenja C. Sommer and Mengtong Jiang 11 Success factors of project portfolio management and their influence on innovation success 219 Alexander Kock and Hans Georg Gemünden 12 Innovation in project-based organizations 232 Jan van den Ende and Floor Blindenbach-Driessen PART III IMPORTING AND CROSS-FERTILIZING 13 Collaboration and trust in innovative projects 244 Niels Noorderhaven 14 A cultural evolution theory of balancing innovative and routine projects 258 Christoph H. Loch, Stylianos Kavadias and Svenja C. Sommer 15 Organizing projects for social innovation 274 Stephan Manning and Stanislav Vavilov 16 From “lonely projects” to orchestrating project innovation ecosystems 294 Samuel C. MacAulay, Andrew Davies and Mark Dodgson 17 Value management of innovation projects: contemporary challenges and perspectives 308 Sophie Hooge and Sylvain Lenfle 18 Blending novelty and tradition in creative projects: how robust project design and conventionality shape the appeal of operatic productions 333 Giulia Cancellieri, Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani PART IV CASES AND CONTEXTS 19 Systems engineering as foundation and target for complex system innovation 356 Stephen B. Johnson 20 Corporate innovation and agile project management 375 Kate Davis and Jeffrey K. Pinto 21 Projects, capabilities and innovation: Rome’s Jubilee as a vanguard project for the Italian Civil Protection Department 393 Eugenia Cacciatori and Andrea Prencipe 22 Digital project capabilities and innovation: insights from the emerging use of platforms in construction 408 Jennifer Whyte, Luigi Mosca and Shanjing Zhou (Alexander) 23 Innovation and big science projects 423 Mark Dodgson and David Gann Index 435
