Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Understanding front-end project workshops with Social Practice Theory

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dc.creator Burger, K
dc.creator White, L
dc.creator Yearworth, M
dc.date 2018-11-22T15:15:09Z
dc.date 2018-12-13
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-27T01:03:00Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-27T01:03:00Z
dc.identifier Vol. 37 (1), pp. 161-175.
dc.identifier 10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.11.003
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34880
dc.identifier 0263-7863
dc.identifier International Journal of Project Management
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/241921
dc.description This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record.
dc.description Stimulated by the growing interest in understanding the actuality of project managing and the need to better understand how front-end project workshops can be efficacious, we aim to turn workshops-as-practice into a meaningful object of inquiry. We operationalise Social Practice Theory by studying the intertwining of materials, skills and meaning in video-recorded micro-episodes in a front-end project workshop. Our findings illustrate how material elements provide sensitive assistance as professional skills are enacted in structuring the project-specific urban development challenge. Our theoretical, methodological and empirical approach makes the characteristic tension of practice between transformation and reproduction accessible for empirical inquiry and theorising from practice, thereby helping to develop project management knowledge that resonates with the experience of the project practitioner.
dc.description This work was supported in part by the EU FP7-ENERGY- SMARTCITIES-2012 (314277) project STEEP (Systems Thinking for Comprehensive City Efficient Energy Planning) and the EPSRC funded Industrial Doctorate Centre in Systems (Grant EP/G037353/1).
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier for International Project Management Association (IPMA)
dc.rights © 2018 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.
dc.rights 2020-12-13
dc.rights Under embargo until 13 December 2020 in compliance with publisher policy. 
dc.subject Methodology
dc.subject Theory of Research into Project Management
dc.subject Projects-as-practice
dc.subject Social Practice Theory
dc.subject Video data
dc.subject Front-end workshop
dc.title Understanding front-end project workshops with Social Practice Theory
dc.type Article


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