Podcast
During the last couple of years, I have been running a research project on what it takes to make routines meaningful. The study we have done has resulted in a […]
#36 Orchestrators, Ambassadors, and Brokers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. Today, all the hard work Bekzat Musrpova has put in as a doctoral student has been recognized, […]
20,000 READS!
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 […]
#35 Navigating ambidextrous tensions
Saturday morning, and the computer makes a gentle sound as an incoming email arrives. The email is from Prof. Jörg Sydow, editor for Project Management Journal, and I read: “It […]
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 […]
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