Browsing BI Open by Author "Vaagaasar, Anne Live"
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A theory framework for balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects
Müller, Ralf; Sankaran, Shankar; Drouin, Nathalie; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bekker, Michiel C.; Jain, Karuna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper develops a framework for understanding the interaction between person-centered leadership by project managers (a.k.a. vertical leadership (VLS)) and team-centered leadership by individuals in the project team ... -
Assignment of project team members to projects: Project managers’ influence strategies in practice
Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bekker, Michiel C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how project managers, influence the assignment of project team members by directly assigning or specifying who they want or by indirectly using lateral influence strategies ... -
Balancing leadership in projects: Role of the socio-cognitive space
Drouin, Nathalie; Müller, Ralf Josef; Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Balanced leadership has emerged as a contemporary theory of the dynamics in the continuous transfer of leadership authority between project managers and team members in projects. This article addresses the cognitive ... -
Balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects: Empirical studies from Australia, Canada, Norway and Sweden
Drouin, Nathalie; Müller, Ralf; Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to identify how horizontal leaders (within project teams) execute their leadership task in the context of balanced leadership; and to pinpoint scenarios that can occur when ... -
Balansert lederskap
Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Müller, Ralf Josef (Journal article, 2020)Denne artikkelen diskuterer hvordan man kan kombinere vertikalt og horisontalt lederskap effektivt i prosjekter, altså hvordan lederskapet i prosjektet kan skifte mellom teammedlemmer og den formelt utpekte prosjektlederen ... -
The Challenges of Implementing Temporal Shifts in Temporary Organizations: Implications of a Situated Temporal View
Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Hernes, Tor Øystein; Dille, Therese (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)We apply a situated temporal view to reveal the acute challenge actors face in making changes when their project moves toward its final deadline. A situated temporal view takes account not just of the dwindling time left ... -
Empowerment: The key to horizontal leadership in project teams
Yu, Miao; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Müller, Ralf; Wang, Linzhuo; Zhu, Fangwei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Leadership in projects can shift between the project manager (a.k.a. vertical leadership) and one or more team members (a.k.a. horizontal leadership). Our study examines the processes, dimensions, and conditions for ... -
Forskningsfronten på megaprosjekter: Hvor står vi?
Lombardo, Sebastiano; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Forskningsrapport, BI;, Research report, 2024) -
From Tool to Actor: How a project came to orchestrate its own life and that of others
Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Series of Dissertations, Doctoral thesis, 2006)The empirical study of this dissertation is informed by process theories. The collection of empirical material and the analysis of it have spun around the following concepts: connecting, heterogeneity, and contingency. The ... -
Governance of Interorganizational Project Networks
Müller, Ralf Josef; Alonderienė, Raimonda; Chmieliauskas, Alfredas; Drouin, Nathalie; Minelgaite, Inga; Pilkienė, Margarita; Šimkonis, Saulius; Unterhitzenberger, Christine; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Wang, Linzhuo; Zhu, Fangwei (Research report, 2022) -
Managing trust and control when offshoring information systems development projects by adjusting project goals
Karlsen, Jan Terje; Solli-Sæther, Hans Arthur; Van Oorschot, Kim; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article presents a study of two projects focusing on the relationships of two Nordic clients with suppliers in low-cost countries. It explores the interplay between trust and control when offshoring information systems ... -
A (meta)governance framework for multi-level governance of inter-organizational project networks
Müller, Ralf Josef; Aix-Séguin, Charlotte; Alonderien, Raimonda; Bourgault, Mario; Chmieliauskas, Alfredas; Drouin, Nathalie; Ke, Yongjian; Minelgaite, Inga; Pilkienė, Margarita; Šimkonis, Saulius; Unterhitzenberger, Christine; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Wang, Linzhuo; Zhu, Fangwei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Little is known about the governance of inter-organizational networks for projects. This study empirically develops a theoretical framework for this, using twenty-eight project networks as case studies, applying 124 ... -
A Multilevel Governance Model for Interorganizational Project Networks
Unterhitzenberger, Christine; Müller, Ralf Josef; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Ke, Yongjian; Alonderienė, Raimonda; Minelgaite, Inga; Pilkienė, Margarita; Wang, Linzhuo; Zhu, Fangwei; Drouin, Nathalie; Chmieliauskas, Alfredas; Šimkonis, Saulius; Mongeon, Mylene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study operationalizes and tests a multilevel governance model for interorganizational project networks. Results of a qualitative multicase study are used to develop a framework model with three levels of governance, ... -
Project managers adjust their leadership: to workspace and project type
Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Müller, Ralf Josef; De Paoli, Donatella (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the triadic relationship between project workspace (i.e. spatial context), project type and project manager’s leadership style. It develops the concept of leadership construct ... -
A Routine Dynamics Lens on the Stability-Change Dilemma in Project-Based Organizations
Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)A central issue in project-based organizations (PBOs) is how to balance the need for flexibly responding to changing customer demands and creating consistent performance in the organization at large. This article discusses ... -
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration
Dille, Therese; Hernes, Tor Øystein; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The effects of different temporal structures among actors in interorganizational projects can be hugely consequential, especially for large societal projects. By applying a temporal translation view to a real-time study ...