Professionalization and Dissemination of Project Management in Italy. Structuring an Organizational Field

• DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.464
• Publication Date: 2015-09-15T04:14:57Z
• Authors: Giuseppe Calabrese; Piero Mastroberar...
• Keywords: Professionalization; Structuring; Popularity

The prevailing view looks at Project Management (PM) as a neutral and objective corpus of managerial knowledge. This perspective explains its growing popularity an adaptive response by the organizations related to some significant environmental changes consequential in strategies organizational structures. paper aims propose alternative vision - called Situationist processes professionalization dissemination PM. Through this different lens new elements emerge – institutional power dynamics suggesting considerations. With respect them, work shows preliminary results ongoing larger qualitative research program about structuration field Italy.