The Organizational Design of the Project-Based Organization

This article investigates organizational design choices and their antecedents for the design of project-based organizations. Extant literature acknowledges the diversity of project-based organizational forms, but neither the particular configurations of organizational design dimensions nor the reasons behind their differences are widely addressed. Based on interviews in 12 project-based organizations in various sectors, this study identifies three common organizational design configurations of project-based organizations. It further discusses a range of internal and external factors, which can influence the choice of configuration. The findings are summarized in five overriding conclusions.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Project Management Journal

• Publication date

  2019-07-03

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1177/8756972819859746
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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