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- Title
In search of Eureka: How deadlines and governance arrangements affect the enactment of roles within major collaborative research programmes.
- Authors
Marsden, Alistair
- Abstract
This dissertation presents an exploratory case study of how participants in a technology project from two organisations within a major collaborative research programme make sense of trust-control dynamics and cultural-governance relationships and how this affects the enactment of roles. Using grounded theory and Freytag's plot pyramid to help make sense of the case study it argues that deadlines can undermine trust and that governance mechanisms are strongly influenced by epistemic and organisational cultural factors that further mitigate against building trust between the participants. Mistrust causes the enactment of transactional roles within a rigid control environment contradicting the less rigid control environment specified within the formal contract. These enacted roles, in turn, further contribute to mistrust and the participants find themselves trapped in a vicious circle. The implications for research and practice are discussed and further research questions are proposed.
- Subjects
EUREKA (Calif.); TIME management; CORPORATE governance; SUSPICION; CONTRACTS
- Publication
PM World Journal, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
2330-4480
- Publication type
Article