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Nine years ago, Thomas Biedenbach and I wrote a paper that was published in the Project Management Journal, focusing on the role of Axiology in Project Research. Interestingly, this paper […]
Author Archives: Mattias Jacobsson
#35 Navigating ambidextrous tensions
Saturday morning, and the computer makes a gentle sound as an incoming email arrives. The email is from Jörg Sydow, editor for Project Management Journal, and I read: “It is […]
Dissemination beyond academia
Last week, a journalist contacted me and interviewed me for an article in Suntarbetsliv. Suntarbetsliv is an organization jointly run by the trade unions and employer organizations of those working […]
What a Wonderful Week
Last week, I had the pleasure of spending three days in Krakow (Poland), attending the seminar “Towards (De)projectification? Transformations in the Project Society” at Jagiellonian University. Organized by Beata Jałocha, […]
Funding for another research project
After a few unsuccessful attempts, fortune finally came our way! Last week, Henrik and I got an application approved by Smart Built Environment. The project is called “Mid-sized contractors’ ability […]
Our Special Issue Editorial is Out!
Twelve-ish years ago, we formulated the idea to ourselves: to commemorate the very influential 1995 Special Issue on Temporary Organizations in the Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) with an anniversary […]
Popular Science publication
To try to reach the practitioner audience of our research project “Meaningful Routines”, we (i.e, Malin Näsholm, Virginia Rosales, and yours truly) decided to write a popular science article for […]
#33 An essay on deprojectification
As the result of some very intense work at the end of last year, the very talented Dr. Beata Jalocha and I have now had our second joint paper accepted […]
#32 Meaningful organizational routines
In the spring of 2020, we came up with the idea to study what makes organizational routines perceived as meaningful and thus worth upholding. After some pondering, we wrote an […]
On Homo academicus (dux) and Ontological Assumptions in Academia
There are few moments in academia that bring more sense of satisfaction than when you first see your thoughts and ideas printed on paper. Today, Anders Söderholm and I could […]
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