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Reframing project management process paralysis: an autoethnographic study of the UK fire service

Reframing project management process paralysis: an autoethnographic study of the UK fire service
Reframing project management process paralysis: an autoethnographic study of the UK fire service
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new social, environmental, and economic challenges for organisational routines, and a multilevel perspective of project management processes and decision making is required to untangle the complex nature of projects and phenomena. This research hence aims to investigate reframing of traditional project failure reasoning in pressurised situations by adopting a wider organisational view of the causation of failure using models from high-risk industries which support good decision-making practices and highlighting the project, programme and organisational structures which inherently position a project manager to fail in conditions with cognitive overload, limitations, and constraints. Through an institutional perspective, both individuals (the project managers) and organisations are considered under the influence of normative and cognitive pressures, and both are sources of change.
Project Management, Autoethnography, Fire Service, Process Paralysis, COVID-19, Institutional Theory
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University of Southampton
Barber, Carl
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Barber, Carl, Dacre, Nicholas and Dong, Hao (2021) Reframing project management process paralysis: an autoethnographic study of the UK fire service (Advanced Project Management, 6, 21) University of Southampton

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new social, environmental, and economic challenges for organisational routines, and a multilevel perspective of project management processes and decision making is required to untangle the complex nature of projects and phenomena. This research hence aims to investigate reframing of traditional project failure reasoning in pressurised situations by adopting a wider organisational view of the causation of failure using models from high-risk industries which support good decision-making practices and highlighting the project, programme and organisational structures which inherently position a project manager to fail in conditions with cognitive overload, limitations, and constraints. Through an institutional perspective, both individuals (the project managers) and organisations are considered under the influence of normative and cognitive pressures, and both are sources of change.

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Published date: 2021
Keywords: Project Management, Autoethnography, Fire Service, Process Paralysis, COVID-19, Institutional Theory

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Local EPrints ID: 448705
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/448705
PURE UUID: 45a15170-a8ab-47be-817b-bc913d20dd6d
ORCID for Hao Dong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3458-4986

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Date deposited: 30 Apr 2021 16:33
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:03

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Author: Carl Barber
Author: Nicholas Dacre
Author: Hao Dong ORCID iD

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