Handbook on Innovation and Project Management

Edited by Andrew Davies, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Business School, UK, Sylvain Lenfle, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM – Department of Innovation), France, Christoph H. Loch, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, and Christophe Midler, Centre de Recherche en Gestion-Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation, CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Contents:

Foreword xiv
Karl T. Ulrich
1 Introduction: building bridges between innovation and project management research 1
Andrew Davies, Sylvain Lenfle, Christoph H. Loch and Christophe Midler

PART I CONVERGING AND INTEGRATING
2 Bridging project studies and innovation studies: a meta-theoretical approach and research agenda 36
Joana Geraldi and Jonas Söderlund
3 Corporate entrepreneurship and project management 60
Valentine Georget and Rémi Maniak
4 The converging nature of innovation and project management: process, contingency and strategy 80
Vered Holzmann and Aaron Shenhar
5 It’s all a bit fuzzy? The front end in project and innovation management 101
Michael A. Lewis, Joseph W. Harrison and Jens K. Roehrich
6 “A disputed project identity”: ambiguity and hybridization of exploration and exploitation in complex projects 125
Stéphanie Tillement, Frédéric Garcias and Florence Charue-Duboc
7 Innovation projects in a global world: bridging global innovation management and project management 149
Christophe Midler and Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini

PART II BUILDING AND EXTENDING
8 Corporate innovation strategies and multi-project management on lineages and ambidextrous programmes 168
Rémi Maniak and Christophe Midler
9 Exploratory projects: the state of the art and a research agenda 186
Sylvain Lenfle
10 Managing unforeseeable uncertainty through learning 201
Christoph H. Loch, Svenja C. Sommer and Mengtong Jiang
11 Success factors of project portfolio management and their influence on innovation success 219
Alexander Kock and Hans Georg Gemünden
12 Innovation in project-based organizations 232
Jan van den Ende and Floor Blindenbach-Driessen

PART III IMPORTING AND CROSS-FERTILIZING
13 Collaboration and trust in innovative projects 244
Niels Noorderhaven
14 A cultural evolution theory of balancing innovative and routine projects 258
Christoph H. Loch, Stylianos Kavadias and Svenja C. Sommer
15 Organizing projects for social innovation 274
Stephan Manning and Stanislav Vavilov
16 From “lonely projects” to orchestrating project innovation ecosystems 294
Samuel C. MacAulay, Andrew Davies and Mark Dodgson
17 Value management of innovation projects: contemporary challenges and perspectives 308
Sophie Hooge and Sylvain Lenfle
18 Blending novelty and tradition in creative projects: how robust project design and conventionality shape the appeal of operatic productions 333
Giulia Cancellieri, Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani

PART IV CASES AND CONTEXTS
19 Systems engineering as foundation and target for complex system innovation 356
Stephen B. Johnson
20 Corporate innovation and agile project management 375
Kate Davis and Jeffrey K. Pinto
21 Projects, capabilities and innovation: Rome’s Jubilee as a vanguard project for the Italian Civil Protection Department 393
Eugenia Cacciatori and Andrea Prencipe
22 Digital project capabilities and innovation: insights from the emerging use of platforms in construction 408
Jennifer Whyte, Luigi Mosca and Shanjing Zhou (Alexander)
23 Innovation and big science projects 423
Mark Dodgson and David Gann

Index 435