Artikel

Influence of sponsor's management style in project prioritization

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is understand how the different styles of sponsor management influence the prioritization of projects. Design/methodology/approach: The empiric analysis used in-depth interviews with 11 executives as method for data collection and qualitative content analysis using theory and data driven categories for analysis is performed. Findings: This research points to the emergence of opportunistic management style, and to evidences of lack of strategic alignment in the project prioritization process. Research limitations/implications: The lack of prioritization methods evidences to compare with project management style. Also, the number of project managers to interview as experts. Practical implications: The analysis shows that committees and post-project evaluation be established to mitigate failures in the prioritization process impacted from sponsor's management styles influence. Originality/value: The paper provides a critical perspective about sponsor's management styles and project prioritization context; it is important to highlight how different management styles of the sponsor result in different behaviors in the companies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) ; ISSN: 2013-0953 ; Volume: 13 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 430-450 ; Barcelona: OmniaScience

Klassifikation
Management
Thema
management style
sponsor
project prioritization
project management
opportunistic behavior

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pimentel-Rodrigues, Luciana Magalhães Girardin
da Silva, Luciano Ferreira
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
OmniaScience
(wo)
Barcelona
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.3926/jiem.3068
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Pimentel-Rodrigues, Luciana Magalhães Girardin
  • da Silva, Luciano Ferreira
  • OmniaScience

Entstanden

  • 2020

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