Project Competencies of Consultancy firms in Sweden: Perceptions of Project Management Practitioners - Softcover

Mainga, Wise; Yan, Lina

 
9783843375382: Project Competencies of Consultancy firms in Sweden: Perceptions of Project Management Practitioners
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3843375380 ISBN 13: 9783843375382
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This study explores, describes and analyzes the various characteristics of interproject learning mechanisms and project competencies found in a sample of consulting firms in Sweden. The study focuses on the perceived importance of different interproject learning mechanisms and their perceived impact in developing project competencies in consulting firms. The study interrogates the ?perceptions' of ?key' informed project management practitioners, who have experience of managing projects. Their perceptions about project activities in their respective firms helped capture a ?managerial' and provide an ?expert' view. The study find that the most highly ranked and valued interproject learning mechanisms involved some degree of face-to-face interactions. Learning mechanisms that enable the capture, storage and transfer of explicit knowledge, though important, were not ranked highly in importance as person-to- person communication. The difference might be due to the efficient way the latter mechanisms have in transferring socially embedded and context-dependant tacit knowledge, which comprise a large part of knowledge applied in projects.

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Reseña del editor

This study explores, describes and analyzes the various characteristics of interproject learning mechanisms and project competencies found in a sample of consulting firms in Sweden. The study focuses on the perceived importance of different interproject learning mechanisms and their perceived impact in developing project competencies in consulting firms. The study interrogates the ?perceptions' of ?key' informed project management practitioners, who have experience of managing projects. Their perceptions about project activities in their respective firms helped capture a ?managerial' and provide an ?expert' view. The study find that the most highly ranked and valued interproject learning mechanisms involved some degree of face-to-face interactions. Learning mechanisms that enable the capture, storage and transfer of explicit knowledge, though important, were not ranked highly in importance as person-to- person communication. The difference might be due to the efficient way the latter mechanisms have in transferring socially embedded and context-dependant tacit knowledge, which comprise a large part of knowledge applied in projects.

Biografía del autor

Wise Mainga is currently an Assistant Professor at Ajman University of Science & Technology, College of Business Administration, UAE. He can be contacted at wmainga@yahoo.com. Lina Yan is a Business Development Manager at Transaction Services Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Shanghai, China. She can be contacted at linayan1982@gmail.com

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3843375380
ISBN 13 
9783843375382
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
104
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