Doing Exemplary Research Projects

A Guide to Practice

Stewart Clegg, Julien Pollack (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

326 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781035316731 (ISBN)

Infos

This innovative book compiles accounts of six exemplary research journeys, each revealing the complex realities faced by researchers in their field. Detailing the processes followed and paths to producing research outcomes, candid and compelling insights are provided into the challenges both faced and overcome. These reflections are balanced by commentaries from experts in the field, situating each case study within a broader research context.

Utilising case studies and in-depth discussion, this book outlines the ideas and techniques which underpin exemplary research, to assist in the application of this theory in relation to their own research. Chapters highlight methods for critically evaluating research and identifying key strategies and potential pitfalls. It also provides a window into the roles played by the emotional research processes hidden from view in final publications, such as persistence, collaboration and embeddedness.



Doing Exemplary Research Projects is a fundamental resource for research students and early career researchers looking to develop their skills. This book is valuable for students in business and management disciplines, especially those interested in projects and temporary organizing. It is also a useful pedagogical toolkit for senior academics teaching graduate research development.

Autor

Edited by Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack, School of Project Management, The University of Sydney

Inhalt

Contents
1 Doing Exemplary Research Projects: A Guide to Practice –
Introduction 1
Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack
PART I EXEMPLAR 1
2 Introductory remarks to exemplar 1 21
Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack
3 A ten-year transition journey into project-oriented agency and
regeneration 24
Sylvain Lenfle and Jonas Söderlund
4 Editing ‘exemplary research’ papers: on the exercise of
editorial discretion 48
Ben R. Martin
5 Bridging paradigms? A historical organization studies
approach to project-oriented agency and regeneration 57
Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey
6 Project-oriented agency: a novel conceptual lens to advance
research on sustainability transitions 64
Andrew Davies, Shah Abdul Saadi and Antonio Daood
PART II EXEMPLAR 2
7 Introductory remarks to exemplar 2 77
Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack
8 Intuition in action research: investigating project-based
practices for urban sustainability 80
Hanna Lehtimäki and Ari Jokinen
9 Managing sustainability projects in the City 94
Lara K. Mottee
10 Redefining project actions and impact through ground-
breaking academic cooperation 101
Tommi Halonen, Karoliina Tuukkanen and Erkki-Jussi Nylén
11 Temporary initiatives drive lasting change: the ripple effects
of project based practices 111
Luca Sabini
PART III EXEMPLAR 3
12 Introductory remarks to exemplar 3 118
Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack
13 Disappearance of organisations via temporary organising? 122
Jörg Sydow and Arnold Windeler
14 Multiple temporalities in project-based organisations and
beyond 132
Kerstin Sahlin
15 Permanent and temporary organising across time and space:
do projects follow rules or create rules? 139
Fredrik Tell
PART IV EXEMPLAR 4
16 Introductory remarks to exemplar 4 148
Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack
17 Exploring ‘dark topics’ in organizational research: the
challenge of researching normalization of deviance 151
Jeffrey Pinto and Kate Davis
18 Doing the wrong things for all the right reasons: positive
deviances of project governance 174
Sofia Pemsel
19 ‘The corruption of project governance through normalization
of deviance’ by Davis and Pinto: a commentary 182
Giorgio Locatelli
PART V EXEMPLAR 5
20 Introductory remarks to exemplar 5 195
Stewart Clegg andJulien Pollack
21 Tons of data, but no theory. Ethnoventionist research in an
interorganisational strategic change project 198
Alfons van Marrewijk and Leonore van den Ende
22 The imperfection of projects and opportunities for learning 212
Dicle Kortantamer
23 The folly of artefactual representation in mediating power
relations 218
Simon Addyman
PART VI EXEMPLAR 6
24 Introductory remarks to exemplar 6 227
Stewart Clegg andJulien Pollack
25 A story of an early academic researcher: from PhD research
to publishing on PPPs and institutional entrepreneurship 230
Mhamed Biygautane
26 Commentary note: institutional entrepreneurship and
infrastructure public−private partnership 248
Cyrlene Claasen, Kweku Adams, Sa’ad Ali and David Weir
27 How to make public−private partnerships work? 255
Lucia Xiaoyan Liu and Tristano Sainati
PART VII CONCLUSION
28 Learning from exemplars 262
Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack
Appendix 1: List of nominators 289
Appendix 2: list of nominated papers 290

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2025
• Verlagsort: Cheltenham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
• ISBN-13: 9781035316731 / 9781035316731
• Zustand: Neuware