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Projects, paths, and practices: Sustaining and leveraging project-based relationships

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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:05 authored by Stephan ManningStephan Manning, Jörg Sydow
In this article, we examine how project entrepreneurs maintain and leverage long-term project-based relationships in highly uncertain and volatile project businesses with clients and key service providers across ever changing collaborative contexts. Based on a thorough analysis of TV project networks, using both quantitative and qualitative data, we find that project entrepreneurs form core teams with particular clients and service providers, and establish sequences of related projects thereby forming collaborative paths. These paths allow partners to exploit and stretch existing, and explore new capabilities and partner resources across time and contexts of collaboration. Paths are promoted by connecting practices partners apply to establish task and team linkages between past, present and potential future projects. Our findings promote a more processual understanding of project-based organizing and learning, and tie formation and maintenance in dynamic industry contexts.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Industrial and Corporate Change

ISSN

0960-6491

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Issue

5

Volume

20

Page range

1369-1402

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-09-27

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-09-27

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-09-27

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