Governance and Resilience of Project Networks: on a Rising Yet a Misunderstood Trajectory
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Date
2017
Authors
Mugarura, Yosamu
Sang, Paul
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The International Journal Of Business & Management
Abstract
Continued search for sustainable project success has dictated a shift from individualism and competition to partnerships and
networking. Project networks is no longer a distant concept but a practical reality. Various actors under different social
configurations (called project networks) are increasingly partnering together in search for scarce resources and
complementarities. It is evidently clear that project outcomes are achieved through the collective interplay among many
actors influenced by technological, social and institutional frameworks in a systemic and co-evolutionary nature. The paper
discusses key antecedents (governance practices, network composition, and cultural attributes) of sustainable, and
innovative interactions (otherwise known as resilience) in project networks. The paper depicts a key deficiency whereby
appropriate skill sets that match unique organizational configuration of project networks, remain elusive to majority of
project network managers. The purpose of the paper is to generate a debate by reviewing different literature and
highlighting available contributions on the topic while pointing out existing gaps. The debate is intended to stimulate
thinking among educationists and project practitioners towards developing a tailored curriculum on project network
management that will equip project managers with the requisite skills necessary for managing fragile, complex, and
dynamic structural and process configuration of project networks. The paper concludes by noting that for any project
network governance to be successful, there is need to understand the composition of that network, cultural attributes, and
interaction of network actors.
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Keywords
resilience, interactions, cultural attributes,, network composition, governance