SSOAR Logo
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • English 
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • Login
SSOAR ▼
  • Home
  • About SSOAR
  • Guidelines
  • Publishing in SSOAR
  • Cooperating with SSOAR
    • Cooperation models
    • Delivery routes and formats
    • Projects
  • Cooperation partners
    • Information about cooperation partners
  • Information
    • Possibilities of taking the Green Road
    • Grant of Licences
    • Download additional information
  • Operational concept
Browse and search Add new document OAI-PMH interface
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Download PDF
Download full text

(274.1Kb)

Citation Suggestion

Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-452845

Exports for your reference manager

Bibtex export
Endnote export

Display Statistics
Share
  • Share via E-Mail E-Mail
  • Share via Facebook Facebook
  • Share via Bluesky Bluesky
  • Share via Reddit reddit
  • Share via Linkedin LinkedIn
  • Share via XING XING

Failure and success stories in intercultural Project management

Geschichten von Erfolg und Misserfolg in interkulturellem Projektmanagement
[journal article]

Mahadevan, Jasmin
Klinke, Christian

Abstract

Technisches Projektmanagement (PM) erfordert die fortlaufende individuelle Interpretation des zu erwartenden Projekterfolgs oder -misserfolgs. Dieser Artikel identifiziert Prozesse des narrativen Sinnmachens als Schlüsselfaktor bei der Interpretation von zukünftigem Projekterfolg oder -misserfolg. B... view more

Technisches Projektmanagement (PM) erfordert die fortlaufende individuelle Interpretation des zu erwartenden Projekterfolgs oder -misserfolgs. Dieser Artikel identifiziert Prozesse des narrativen Sinnmachens als Schlüsselfaktor bei der Interpretation von zukünftigem Projekterfolg oder -misserfolg. Basierend auf einer interpretativen Langzeitstudie eines interkulturellen Projekts in einem technischen Unternehmen, identifizieren wir drei Schritte des narrativen Sinnmachens. Diese sind: (1) Retrospektive Geschichten des Misserfolgs; (2) laufende Erzählprozesse des Misserfolgs; (3) kulturalisierte Geschichten des Misserfolgs/ des strategischen Erfolgs. Wir zeigen auf, dass kulturalisierte Interpretationen des Projekt-Misserfolgs oft im Bezug stehen zur individuellen Notwendigkeit, die Realität zu vereinfachen. Die Gefahr von kulturalisierten Interpretationen liegt darin, dass sie den potenziellen Bezug zu PM-Problemen vernachlässigen und der Entwicklung interkultureller PM zuwider laufen. Um zu vermeiden, dass kulturelle Interpretationen dominant werden, schlagen wir die Analyse von Projekt-Geschichten vor, speziell die der laufenden Erzählprozesse des Misserfolgs. Damit tragen wir zu Theorie und Praxis des Projektmanagements und der interkulturellen Kompetenzentwicklung bei.... view less


Technical project management (PM) requires constant individual interpretation with regard to expected project success or failure. This article shows that narrative sense-making with regard to PM is a crucial factor of how future project success/ failure is interpreted. Based on a long-term interpret... view more

Technical project management (PM) requires constant individual interpretation with regard to expected project success or failure. This article shows that narrative sense-making with regard to PM is a crucial factor of how future project success/ failure is interpreted. Based on a long-term interpretative study of an intercultural project in a technical company, we identify three steps of narrative sensemaking: (1) retrospective failure stories; (2) ongoing failure storying; (3) culturalized failure stories/ culturalized strategic success stories. We show that culturalized interpretations of a project's failure are linked to the individual need to simplify reality. The danger of culturalized interpretations is that they neglect potential PM-related project issues and hinder the development of intercultural PM competencies. We suggest the analysis of stories, especially of ongoing failure storying, in order to prevent culturalized interpretations from prevailing, thereby contributing to theory and practice of PM and intercultural education and development.... view less

Keywords
project management; intercultural skills; interpretation; success-failure; narrative

Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Management Science
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature

Document language
English

Publication Year
2012

Page/Pages
p. 59-73

Journal
interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien, 11 (2012) 18

Issue topic
Intercultural engineering

ISSN
2196-9485

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.
 

 


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.