Affiliation:
1. Department of Organization & Centre for Organization and Time, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2. Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark
Abstract
This article advances a temporal understanding of project success through a process study of Vindeby, an exploratory project developing the world’s first offshore wind farm. Pursuing a situated temporal view, our findings reveal how actors constructed Vindeby’s success differently when seeing the project as future, present, and past and how these constructions mutually shaped each other. Adding to prior literature adopting an over-time or in-time perspective, we develop a through-time perspective of project success and a model explaining the interplay of the three perspectives. We discuss how projects may serve as temporal stepping stones toward sustainable futures in the green transition and propose ways for project managers and policymakers to nurture this potential.
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,Business and International Management
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