Making projects critical / edited by Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Making projects critical : an introduction / Svetlana Cicmil and Damian Hodgson -- Are projects real? The PMBOK and the legitimation of project management knowledge / Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil -- From project ontologies to communities of virtue / Carol Linehan and Donncha Kavanaugh -- Conflicting and conflated discourses? Project management, organisational change and learning / Mike Bresnen -- Problematising project management / Janice Thomas -- Projects and prisons / Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff -- The contested object : on projects as emergent space / Manuela Nocker -- An actor network theory perspective on IT projects / Anneli Linde and Henrik C.J. Linderoth -- Reorganisation projects and five uncertainties / Eamonn Molloy and Richard Whittington -- A tale of an evolving project : failed science or serial reinterpretation? / Charles Smith -- Understanding power in project settings / Nick Marshall -- The management of projects in the construction industry : context, discourse and self-identity / Stuart Green -- Managing projects in network contexts : a structuration perspective / Jörg Sydow -- Making the future perfect : constructing the Olympic dream / Stewart R. Clegg [and others] -- Conflicting rhetorical positions on trust and commitment : talk-as-action in IT project failure / John Sillince, Charles Harvey and G. Harindranath -- Sense-making as a process within complex projects / Chris Ivory [and others] -- Afterword : making the management of projects critical / Peter Morris.