Works
- Paradox in project-based enterprise: the case of film making, California Management Review 40(2), 125 to 139, 1998
- Project-based organizations, embeddedness and repositories of knowledge: editorial, Organization Studies 25(9), 1475 to 1489, 2004
- Temporary organizing: promises, processes, problems, Organization Studies 37(12), 1703 to 1719, 2016
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Project-based enterprise and careers
Ideas
Paradoxes of project-based enterprise. A big-budget film project shows paradoxes that challenge the assumption of a relatively permanent firm as the locus of learning, knowledge transfer, and advantage; the authors say the findings suggest the importance of human and social capital embodied in free-agent careers and mobilized within communities of professional and industry practice. Caveat: One project.