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Conference Paper Complexity, Sustainability, Leadership 13 May 2016

Managing Turbulence in Project Environments

By Cimino, Roberto Managing complexity and turbulence is a key issue project managers have to face in their everyday activity: dealing with change and external shocks is becoming the rule. Ecosystems are…

Conference Paper Strategy, Sustainability 13 May 2016

Closing the gap between sustainable strategy and implementation

By Kohl, Kristina Increasingly, organisations are adopting sustainable strategy as a management approach to build organisational value while protecting natural and social capital. However, a sustainability…

Conference Paper Sustainability 13 May 2016

Projects for a sustainable world

By Lefsky, Dan The field of project management will be tasked with a tremendously important and challenging initiative: carry out the goals of the COP21 climate agreement in Paris. On 12 December 2015, countries…

Conference Paper Strategy, Sustainability 9 May 2016

Excite!

By Juli, Thomas In times of increasing competition in the marketplace, organizational excellence and performance is ever more important. But what does "organizational excellence and performance" actually mean? And…

Conference Paper Sustainability 26 October 2014

SUSTAINABILITY marker to support the project selection process: the UNOPS case

By Vargas, Ricardo Viana | Pereira Soares, Carlos Alberto | Valle, André Bittencourt do The objective of this paper is to present an unconventional approach to the project selection criteria that is currently being implemented at the United Nations office for project services (UNOPS)…

Conference Paper Talent Management, Teams, Leadership, Resource Management, Sustainability 26 October 2014

Leadership and team dynamics in the new millennium

By Raghupathy, Shobhna There is a pronounced shift in the demands confronting organizational leadership, and these changes are a reflection of shifts in the global marketplace. With globalization, companies need to…

Conference Paper Sustainability 26 October 2014

Successful CSR tool impacting PSR (project social responsibility)

By Carazo San José, Julio Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been developed for several decades providing significant returns. Project social responsibility (PSR), on the other hand, is an emerging approach that can…

Conference Paper Sustainability 26 October 2014

White Papers (2011)

Fundamentals of project sustainability

By Morfaw, John Sustainable development is a systematic concept relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional, and environmental aspects of human society as well as the non-human environment. This…

Conference Paper Strategy, Sustainability 29 July 2014

Does executive sponsorship matter for realizing project management value

By Chandler, Dawne E. | Gottwald, Werner | Thomas, Janice Research suggests that interest in project management as a strategic tool may be short lived in specific organizations and may be waning in general. This paper shares the results of an empirical…

Conference Paper Sustainability 29 July 2014

A conceptual framework of sustainability in project management

By Martens, Mauro Luiz | Carvalho, Marly Monteiro de Sustainability is increasingly perceived as a necessary tool for understanding the social, economic, and environmental consequences associated with projects and project management. However, the lack…