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Project Business

In: Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies

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  • Kaj U. Koskinen

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During the second half of the twentieth century, there was a shift from functional organization to project-based organization (e.g. Prencipe and Tell, 2001). This shift was caused by the changing nature of work from mass production, with essentially stable customer requirements and slowly changing technology, to the current situation in which every product supplied may be made to a bespoke design, and in which technological changes are continuous and rapid (Turner and Keegan, 1999). In that sense, project-based business is part of a wave of ‘new organizational forms’ that has entered most industries during the past two decades (Kerfoot and Knights, 1998; Packendorff, 2002).

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  • Kaj U. Koskinen, 2010. "Project Business," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies, chapter 2, pages 6-12, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29893-4_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230298934_2
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