Projects, people, professions: Trajectories of learning through a mega-event (the London 2012 case)
Projects, people, professions: Trajectories of learning through a mega-event (the London 2012 case)
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.006
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
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3.5
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Thiel, Joachim
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作者：
Grabher, Gernot;Thiel, Joachim
奥运会等大型活动的规划和组织是由几个专门的项目组织完成的，负责确保资金，完成基础设施，与多个赞助商进行谈判以及实际活动的日常管理。这些组织必须科普一个关键挑战。由于其固有的临时性，他们不能自己提供专业知识和具体的“项目能力”（Davies和布雷迪），而必须从国际科学和技术研究所和其边界之外，例如从主办城市以前的活动或其他大型项目中动员他们。因此，准备和举办大型活动的知识主要沉淀和体现在专业人员中，而不是在常设组织中，本文以2012年伦敦奥运会的规划和组织为实证案例，一方面讨论了这一特殊的动员过程。另一方面，它着眼于这一过程是如何与三个不同的轨迹交织在一起的，这三个轨迹既影响着大型活动，也受到大型活动的影响：旨在招募必要技能的项目的轨迹;个人的轨迹，他们认为为奥运会工作是他们职业生涯中的一个有价值的插曲;专业社区的轨迹，期望学习英国建筑和项目管理行业的好处。(C)2015爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Planning and organization of large-scale events such as Olympic Games are accomplished by several specialized project organizations, in charge of securing finances, completing the infrastructures, negotiating with multiple stake-holders and the day-to-day management of the actual event. These organizations have to cope with a key challenge. Due to their inherently temporary nature they cannot provide the specialized knowledge and specific "project capabilities" (Davies and Brady) on their own, but have to mobilize them from the imst and from outside their boundaries, e.g. from previous events or other mega-projects in the host city. Rather than in permanent organizations, then, the knowledge on preparing and performing mega-events is primarily sedimented and embodied in professionals.Drawing on the planning and organization of the London Olympics 2012 as empirical case, the paper addresses, on the one hand, this particular mobilization process. On the other, it looks at how this process is intertwined with three different trajectories that both affect and are affected by the mega-event: the trajectory of the project that aims to recruit necessary skills; the trajectory of individual persons who perceive working for the Olympics as a rewarding episode in their careers; the trajectory of professional communities that expect learning benefits for the construction and project management industry in the UK. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.