Cool projects, boring institutions: Temporary collaboration in social context
Cool projects, boring institutions: Temporary collaboration in social context
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10.1080/00343400220122025
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2002-05-01
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4.6
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Grabher, G
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作者:
Grabher, G
SPECIAL ISSUE attention towards projects (see LUNDIN and SO DERHOLM, 1995; MIDLER, 1995; LUNDIN and MIDLER, The aim of this Special Issue of Regional Studies, in 1998; LINDKVIST et al., 1998; EKSTEDT et al., 1999; conceptual terms, is to provide analytical keys for HOBDAY, 1998, 2000; GANN and SALTER, 2000). resolving these apparent paradoxes of project-based The debate on projects as ‘temporary systems’ with organizing. We start from the assumption that a solution ‘institutionalized termination’(LUNDIN and SO DER- to these paradoxes has to be found in the interrelation HOLM, 1995) seems to suggest a further shift (or between ‘temporary’projects, ontheonehand, andthe widening) of focus from the inter-firm to the inter-‘permanent’organizations, 1 ties and networks around personal level. In fact, some authors (BOLTANSKI and which they are built, on the other (see EKSTEDT et al., CHIAPELLO, 1999) see project teams, whose success is 1999; SYDOW and WINDELER, 1999; GANN and measured in part precisely in their transience, as the SALTER, 2000; GRABHER, 2001b). Phrased diVerently, the Special Issue is not intended to lend empirical new unit of economic action.0034-3404 print/1360-0591 online/02/030205-10© 2002 Regional Studies Association DOI: 10.1080/00343400220122025 http://www. regional-studies-assoc. ac. uk