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    Project Is as Project Does

    Emerging Microactivities and Play Ontology

    Article Teams 1 February 2020

    Project Management Journal

    Salovaara, Perttu | Savolainen, Jussi | Ropo, Arja

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    Salovaara, P., Savolainen, J., & Ropo, A. (2020). Project Is as Project Does: Emerging Microactivities and Play Ontology. Project Management Journal, 51(1), 49–61. doi: https://DOI: 10.1177/8756972819894101
    The purpose of the article is to further develop the processual approach in project management theorizing. The article introduces Gadamer's (2004) play ontology as a novel perspective used to describe microactivities in a project environment. Play ontology refers to the back-and-forth movements of seemingly mundane microactivities as they unfold during a project. The findings of the study suggest that sensitivity to the microactivities allows considering dissonant or indecisive events as vital and constructive project elements. Play ontology offers new ways for conceptualizing a project as a process: as something that emerges through practical activities as a dynamic and complex phenomenon.
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