Works
- The project-based organisation: an ideal form for managing complex products and systems?, Research Policy 29(7-8), 871 to 893, 2000
- Problem-solving behaviors, organizational forms, and the complexity of tasks, In Constance E. Helfat (ed.), The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development, and Change, Blackwell, Malden, MA, chapter 11, 2003
- The Business of Projects: Managing Innovation in Complex Products and Systems, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
- Charting a path toward integrated solutions, MIT Sloan Management Review 47(3) (Spring 2006), 39 to 48, 2006
- Organizing for solutions: systems seller vs. systems integrator, Industrial Marketing Management 36(2), 183 to 193, 2007
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Complex products and systems
Ideas
The project-based organization. The project-based organization is intrinsically innovative and good at integrating knowledge and handling project risk, but weak at routine work, scale, cross-project coordination, and organization-wide learning, where the functional matrix is strong. Caveat: One case and an illustrative model.
Organizing for integrated solutions. With Davies and Brady, the front-end and back-end design of solutions providers. Caveat: A managerial article, of which only the opening (which names IBM, General Electric, Rolls-Royce, Ericsson, and EDS) and the endnotes were read.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.