BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: Advanced Research on Projects and Temporary Organizations
Author: Rolf Lundin and Markus Hallgren, Editors
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press – Liber
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Format: Hard Cover, 284 pages
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-87-630-0248-6
Reviewer: Gauranga Deka, PMP
Review Date: April 2025
Introduction
The book “Advanced Research on Projects and Temporary Organizations” is a thoughtful collection of several papers, representing a Scandinavian approach to research in the project management field. The primary focus of this book is on advances and potential advances in research on projects and temporary organizations. The selection presented in this book illustrates the current width of research in which projects and temporary organizations serve to illustrate themes coming from organizational theory or inspire organizational theory and related scientific endeavors to enhance project management practice in the industry.
Overview of Book’s Structure
There are fourteen Chapters in the book. Each Chapter represents distinct research topics. Each chapter has a brief introduction and most of the chapters also have summary or conclusion at the end. Throughout the book, there are several diagrammatic representations of some of the concepts discussed.
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- Chapter 1
Restoring Project Success as Phenomenon
Kristian Kreiner
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- Chapter 2
Stakeholder Understanding and Perception of Fairness: Enriching Project Management with Strategy Concepts.
Pernille Eskerod
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- Chapter 3
Relating Temporary Organizations to Strategy Concepts
Runolfur Smari Steinporsson
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- Chapter 4
Time Manager in a Platform Project
Thommie Burstorm and Tomas Blomquist
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- Chapter 5
Project Alliances: A New Direction in Temporary Organization Forms
Derek H. T. Walker and Beverly M. Lloyd Walker
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- Chapter 6
Information Sharing across Partnering Project Organizations: Mechanism and Motivations
Jeffrey K. Pinto and Zarica Nedovic Budic
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How to cite this review: Deka, G. (2025). Advanced Research on Projects and Temporary Organizations, book review, PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue V, May. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/pmwj152-May2025-Deka-Advanced-Research-on-Projects-and-Temporary-Organizations-book-review.pdf
About the Reviewer
Gauranga Deka
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX USA
Gauranga Deka, PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe SPC4 is an IT Project Manager with expertise in building complex software solutions. Currently, he is a member of Project Management Institute & PMI Dallas Chapter. In last 20+ years, he has been leading critical roles in the development of very large, complex, mission critical software applications in Banking/Financial Services Domain. He is well versed in Data Engineering & Analytics, Information Security, Agile, Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) & Water fall model of software development process. Mr. Deka has authored & published scholarly articles on software project management topics. He regularly reviews articles as well as books on the project management area, some of which are published on PM World Journals periodically. As a mentor specialist of PMI Dallas Chapter, he guides young project managers/agile practitioners in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area & also participates on expert panel to discuss important topics that influences contemporary project management processes in the PM Symposium at the University of Texas at Dallas TX.
Gauranga Deka received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MANIT, Bhopal & Executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
He can be contacted at G_deka@yahoo.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurangadeka
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