期刊名称：International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
印刷版ISSN：2182-7796
电子版ISSN：2182-7788
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：1-13
DOI：10.12821/ijispm070201
出版社：SciKA
摘要：Considerable confusion prevails in the mutual positioning and relationship of concepts like management, leadership,
governance and governmentality in projects. This article first develops a framework to distinguish these terms
conceptually by use of Archer’s structure and human agency philosophy. This provides for clearer conceptualization
and lesser redundancy in the use of terms. Then the interaction between governance and governmentality in the context
of projects is assessed, using a contingency theory perspective. This addresses long-standing questions about the nature
of the impact of governance and governmentality on each other and on project and organizational performance. The
results show that higher levels of project sovereignty (as a measure of governance), are associated with lower levels of
authoritarian, but higher levels of neo-liberal governmentality, as well as higher levels of project and organizational
performance. The article continues with a discussion of the theoretical implications from different perspectives of
causality, which provides for different approaches to improve project performance through deliberate fine-tuning of
governance and governmentality.
