Product development tensions: Exploring contrasting styles of project management

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lewis, MW; Welsh, MA; Dehler, GE
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; George Washington University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069380
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 546-564
• 关键词: IMPROVISATION; INNOVATION; performance

摘要

Successful product development requires managing tensions-coping with fluctuating contingencies to foster innovation and efficiency. To investigate this challenge, we explored the nature, dynamics, and impacts of contrasting project management styles. Our conceptual framework details emergent and planned styles. Following 80 projects over two-year periods, we find that these styles offer disparate but interwoven approaches to monitoring, evaluation, and control activities; use of these activities fluctuates over time; a paradoxical blend of styles enhances performance; and uncertainty moderates project management-performance relationships.