TY - JOUR
T1 - Prior and governed stakeholder relationships
T2 - The key to resilience of inter-organizational projects
AU - Yang, Xiaotian
AU - Wang, Linzhuo
AU - Zhu, Fangwei
AU - Müller, Ralf
N1 - Funding Information:
This publication has been developed and reproduced with grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 71772024 ), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ( 2021M690512 ). PMI Sponsored Research Grant, PMI Doctoral Thesis Grant.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Increasingly, scholars are recognising the importance of resilience in projects. However, there is a lack of research on the resilience of temporary inter-organisational projects while considering the intricate relationship among multiple stakeholder organisations. We conducted an embedded comparative case study to investigate the mechanisms how stakeholder relationships involving prior ties and inter-organisational governance in the project support its resilience. Our results show that few prior ties among stakeholders keep them vigilant, fostering the readiness and preparedness for resilience, while many prior ties keep social solidarity among stakeholders, fostering the response and recovery for resilience. Contractual and relational governance improves resilience by clarifying stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities and forming collective cognition, respectively. We believe a plural governance design based on prior ties among stakeholders will improve resilience of the inter-organisational project, by promoting dynamically distributed and centralised stakeholder engagement in preparing, responding and recovering from the unexpected.
AB - Increasingly, scholars are recognising the importance of resilience in projects. However, there is a lack of research on the resilience of temporary inter-organisational projects while considering the intricate relationship among multiple stakeholder organisations. We conducted an embedded comparative case study to investigate the mechanisms how stakeholder relationships involving prior ties and inter-organisational governance in the project support its resilience. Our results show that few prior ties among stakeholders keep them vigilant, fostering the readiness and preparedness for resilience, while many prior ties keep social solidarity among stakeholders, fostering the response and recovery for resilience. Contractual and relational governance improves resilience by clarifying stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities and forming collective cognition, respectively. We believe a plural governance design based on prior ties among stakeholders will improve resilience of the inter-organisational project, by promoting dynamically distributed and centralised stakeholder engagement in preparing, responding and recovering from the unexpected.
KW - Inter-organisational projects
KW - Prior ties
KW - Project governance
KW - Resilience
KW - Stakeholder relationship
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.10.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117370026
SN - 0263-7863
VL - 40
SP - 64
EP - 75
JO - International Journal of Project Management
JF - International Journal of Project Management
IS - 1
ER -