Coordinating temporary organizations in international development through social and temporal embeddedness

Pilbeam, C.

dc.contributor.author	Pilbeam, C.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-22T04:01:04Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-22T04:01:04Z
dc.date.issued	2013-02-01T00:00:00Z	-
dc.identifier.citation	Colin Pilbeam, Coordinating temporary organizations in international development through social and temporal embeddedness, International Journal of Project Management, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 190–199
dc.identifier.issn	0263-7863	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2012.06.004	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8460
dc.description.abstract	Programs of international development utilize groups of individuals, or temporary organizations, to provide specialist knowledge inputs at key stages in an aid program. Despite their significant role nothing is known about the coordination of the activities of these groups. Using four case studies of temporary organizations created to provide inputs to aid programs in the WATSAN sector, this study inductively derives a 4-stage, 10-step process model of coordination of activities in this context. It is argued that the model of coordination is based on mechanisms of temporal and social embeddedness, such that there is a shared understanding amongst members of the required sequence of activities.	en_UK
dc.language.iso	en_UK	-
dc.publisher	Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.	en_UK
dc.rights	NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International Journal of Project Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in International Journal of Project Management, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 190–199 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2012.06.004
dc.title	Coordinating temporary organizations in international development through social and temporal embeddedness	en_UK
dc.type	Article	-