Jörg Sydow
Dr. Jörg Sydow is a Professor of Management at the School of Business & Economics of Freie Universität Berlin and a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. He has published widely and is a founding co-editor of two leading German journals, Management¬forschung and Industrielle Beziehungen – The German Journal of Industrial Relations, as well as a member of the editorial boards of Organization Studies, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies and The Scandinavian Journal of Management. He was an International Visiting Scholar of the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research in London and a Visiting Professor at, among others, the University of Arizona, Tucson, the University of New South Wales, and Columbia University, New York. His research was supported by third parties including the German Research Foundations (DFG), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the International Labour Office (ILO), several German ministries and foundations like Volks¬wagen, Hans-Böckler, and Bertelsmann. His current research interests are organization and information technology, strategic partnering, out¬sourcing, inter¬-firm networks in service and science-based industries, regional clusters, entrepreneurship, innovation and project management, organization and management theory, and research on high-reliability organizations and disasters. Starting June 2016, he is the speaker of interdisciplinary Research Unit 2161 “Organized Creativity – Inducing and Coping with Uncertainty”, financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Address: Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Management, School of Business & Economics, Boltzmannstr. 20, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; Internet http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/en/fachbereich/bwl/management/sydow/index.html; Email: [email protected]
Phone: 49-30-83853782
Address: Boltzmannstr. 20
14195 Berlin
Germany
Address: Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Management, School of Business & Economics, Boltzmannstr. 20, D-14195 Berlin, Germany; Internet http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/en/fachbereich/bwl/management/sydow/index.html; Email: [email protected]
Phone: 49-30-83853782
Address: Boltzmannstr. 20
14195 Berlin
Germany
less
Related Authors
InterestsView All (8)
Uploads
Papers by Jörg Sydow
relationally embedded interorganizational projects, and additional relational dynamics triggered and managed by BIM in face of the
recursive interplay between stability and change, the study provides a nuanced manageability framework. With this it contributes not only to project management scholarship, but also to management research more broadly, which is increasingly interested in forms of temporary organizing.
this field of scholarly inquiry more closely with management and organization studies. While the 4 T framework with its four dimensions (time, task, team, and transition) has often been referred to, few have criticized or developed it further. In this paper we review the respective literature and propose to focus more on practices and tensions and, in particular, add the tension-ridden concept of project plasticity, which captures the ability of projects to change substantially and yet stay the same in the eyes of those involved. But instead of adding a fifth
T, we highlight with this addition the fundamental tension between stability and change. Like the classic and already well-researched tension between organizational autonomy and contextual embeddedness this particular
tension is not only extremely relevant for managing temporary organizations, but also cuts across the four classic dimensions and refines our understanding of the dynamic nature inherent to temporary organizations. We illustrate our argument with the example of an interorganizational project from the construction industry.
relationally embedded interorganizational projects, and additional relational dynamics triggered and managed by BIM in face of the
recursive interplay between stability and change, the study provides a nuanced manageability framework. With this it contributes not only to project management scholarship, but also to management research more broadly, which is increasingly interested in forms of temporary organizing.
this field of scholarly inquiry more closely with management and organization studies. While the 4 T framework with its four dimensions (time, task, team, and transition) has often been referred to, few have criticized or developed it further. In this paper we review the respective literature and propose to focus more on practices and tensions and, in particular, add the tension-ridden concept of project plasticity, which captures the ability of projects to change substantially and yet stay the same in the eyes of those involved. But instead of adding a fifth
T, we highlight with this addition the fundamental tension between stability and change. Like the classic and already well-researched tension between organizational autonomy and contextual embeddedness this particular
tension is not only extremely relevant for managing temporary organizations, but also cuts across the four classic dimensions and refines our understanding of the dynamic nature inherent to temporary organizations. We illustrate our argument with the example of an interorganizational project from the construction industry.
Extant literature tends to treat the two challenges separately with a focus on one of them. This conceptual paper builds on the discussion in Berggren, Sydow and Tell (2017), and has a triple aim: to analyze the capabilities involved in the integration challenge and absorption challenges, to highlight the dangers of simplistic solutions, and to suggest the possibilities of interaction effects. More specifically, the following questions are discussed:
• What capabilities do organizations need to integrate diverse sets of knowledge, and what capabilities are needed to absorb state of the art knowledge in specialized areas?
• How do mainstream new product development practices influence the opportunities for knowledge integration versus knowledge absorption?
• What patterns of path-building and boundary crossing can be predicted based on the formation of knowledge integration and knowledge absorption capabilities?