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A consideration of reflexive practice within the critical projects movement
journal contribution
posted on 2012-12-07, 10:05 authored by Dan SageDan Sage, Andrew Dainty, Naomi BrookesThis paper offers a theoretical commentary on some of the new directions in project management theory offered by the critical projects movement. Specifically it examines the implications of a specific approach to knowledge – dialectics – that is implicitly mobilized within this movement. It examines the dialectic provenance of much of this thinking: dialectics is afforded an implicit importance within critical project management as it offers a more reflexive approach to both understand and manage projects. In pursuing this examination, this paper positions the critical projects movement within a broader set of critical studies of reflexive management. We examine how these understandings of reflexivity might inform project management itself and help shed light on some important assumptions that critical project thinkers will need to address whilst using dialectic thinking. The aim is to open up new debates within these modes of thinking, and to encourage further explorations of their implications for understandings of practice amongst those interested in more reflexive approaches to project management practice and research.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Citation
SAGE, D., DAINTY, A. and BROOKES, N., 2010. A consideration of reflexive practice within the critical projects movement. International Journal of Project Management, 28 (6), pp. 539 - 546.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010Notes
This article was published in the International Journal of Project Management, [© Elsevier] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2009.10.002ISSN
0263-7863Publisher version
Language
- en