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The Handbook of Project Management, 6th Edition
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The Handbook of Project Management, 6th Edition

by Martina Huemann, Rodney Turner
February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
17h 40m
English
Routledge
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Part VI Perspectives

DOI: 10.4324/9781003274179-47

Chapter 42: Projectification of society

Yvonne Schoper and Helgi Thor Ingason describe the projectification of society. Projectification is defined as the economic trend of an increasing diffusion of projects as a form of business organisation. This development contains many positive but also some negative changes. Organisations, economies and societies become more flexible and innovative, their capability to solve complex problems and transformations is increased by a sufficiently large amount of capable project managers in an organisation or society, they can be able to better deal with changing environments. On the other hand, the projectification trend means that the role of the workplace ...

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