Field-configuring projects: How projects shape the public reflection of electric mobility in Germany

Bohn, Stephan; Braun, Timo

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.04.006

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“…Projects have frequently been mentioned in driving strategic change within and across organizations (Martinsuo et al, 2022;Van Marrewijk & Van den Ende, 2022), even of entire institutional fields (Bohn & Braun, 2021). Such projects aim to initiate radical innovation, change, and transformation, often with the help of interorganizational collaborations.…”

Section: Process View On the Imperfection Of Projectsmentioning

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“…In this latter view, temporary organizations in general, and projects in particular, are evaluated as change events contributing to the fulfillment of grand societal challenges and societal development goals (Papadonikolaki et al, 2023; Winch et al, 2023). Projects have frequently been mentioned in driving strategic change within and across organizations (Martinsuo et al, 2022; Van Marrewijk & Van den Ende, 2022), even of entire institutional fields (Bohn & Braun, 2021). Such projects aim to initiate radical innovation, change, and transformation, often with the help of interorganizational collaborations.…”

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Beyond Failure and Success: A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice

Marrewijk,

Stjerne,

Sydow

2024

Project Management Journal

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This editorial scrutinizes the dichotomy of a project’s success and failure, which, in our opinion is too rigid, inflexible, and unnuanced. The aim of this special issue is to nuance this dichotomy by moving toward a process view on how imperfection is brought about in projects. We introduce and discuss five topics important for such a process view: (1) improvisation, (2) temporality, (3) power and politics, (4) transition, and (5) intentionality. We argue that a holistic, processual view of imperfections premises emergence and continuous learning and judgments of the project both in and over time. All five articles in this special issue deal with at least one of the discussed themes of our proposed process view on imperfect projects.

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Section: Process View On the Imperfection Of Projectsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Beyond Failure and Success: A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice

Marrewijk,

Stjerne,

Sydow

2024

Project Management Journal

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“…In contrast, public administration in Germany is often characterized as centralized, lacking flexibility and performance (Wegrich, 2021), as evidenced by a large number of failed public infrastructure projects, such as Berlin's major airport (Fiedler and Wendler, 2015) or in the case of disastrous floods (Rudolph and Kuhn, 2018). In response, grassroots movements are forming, self-organizing as in the case of the energy transition (Langer et al, 2017), The projectification of society in Germany forming protest movements like "Fridays for Future" (Wallis and Loy, 2021), or preparing the field for new technologies with the help of "field-configuring projects" such as in the case of electromobility (Bohn and Braun, 2021). However, there have been no studies on the prevalence of projects in sectors outside the economy.…”

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“…In response, grassroots movements are forming, self-organizing as in the case of the energy transition (Langer et al. , 2017), forming protest movements like “Fridays for Future” (Wallis and Loy, 2021), or preparing the field for new technologies with the help of “field-configuring projects” such as in the case of electromobility (Bohn and Braun, 2021). However, there have been no studies on the prevalence of projects in sectors outside the economy.…”

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An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany

Wagner

Huemann

Radujković

2022

IJMPB

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PurposeThis paper aims to provide insights into the role of project management associations for the projectification of society from an institutional theory perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a mixed methods approach. It draws on the research propositions of a recently conducted qualitative study and builds on them by analyzing the empirical data of a quantitative case study.FindingsThe results indicate that the projectification of society in Germany is well advanced and continues growing. The economy plays a leading role, which resonates with other sectors of society. The actions of project management associations have only an indirect influence on the projectification of society, which cultural–cognitive institutions are mediating. Both findings are novel compared to the literature.Practical implicationsTaking an overall view of the findings, project management associations gain a better understanding of the projectification process and important guidance on their role.Social implicationsThe results offer all people interested intriguing insights into the contemporary phenomenon of the projectification of society, along with its current state and future evolution.Originality/valueThe application of institutional theory to the projectification of society in the framework of this case study enables an in-depth analysis of the underlying social processes and interactions between the regulative, normative and cultural–cognitive activities of project management associations on the one hand, and institutions on the other hand, at the societal level. This opens up new and promising perspectives for further research.

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“…It is also important to provide the gradual adaptation of society to new solutions appearing in urban transport systems [11]. Although these issues appear to be very important and should be widely considered by scientists the authors noticed that many scientific works on electric mobility focus mainly on aspects related to management, transport systems, economy, technical, or automotive issues [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. However, there are few works directly dedicated to the subject of education in the form of methods and concepts of electric mobility education.…”

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When, What and How to Teach about Electric Mobility? An Innovative Teaching Concept for All Stages of Education: Lessons from Poland

2021

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The implementation of new mobility solutions based on electric vehicles such as electric cars, electric scooters, and electric bikes, in urban transport systems, may bring several advantages for society, from environmental and economic benefits to improved quality of life. Nevertheless, we witness a scarcity of education and promotion that supports electric mobility, which can lead to social barriers due to the lack of knowledge. Consequently, people may be discouraged from using new transport technologies. The article focuses on electric mobility issues and present the original concept of electric mobility education. The goal of the work is to identify appropriate educational methods, useful during teaching about electric mobility at different levels of education. The concept focuses on education from primary school to long-life learning. Presented pedagogical concept is based on the three main pillars of pedagogy as diagnosis, forecasting, and content developing. It was developed based on expert research and diagnosed challenges and education gaps during teaching about electric mobility. The concept includes many techniques of education, from the classic methods as lectures and working with books to new educational solutions as e-learning. The original concept of electric mobility education creates new opportunities to promote electric mobility and support the process of creating new services in the electric mobility market.

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Field-configuring projects: How projects shape the public reflection of electric mobility in Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Beyond Failure and Success: A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice

Beyond Failure and Success: A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice

An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany

When, What and How to Teach about Electric Mobility? An Innovative Teaching Concept for All Stages of Education: Lessons from Poland

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