Managing and working in project society : institutional challenges of temporary organizations

"There is an ongoing and strong projectification of business and working life. This movement goes beyond traditional project organized sectors like construction, consultancy, media and entertainment. Project thinking is spreading to most parts of society including industrial enterprises, governmental organizations, educational institutions and volunteer groups. Not only do people relate to projects and to project organizing in their working lives, but they even speak and think of their daily activities in project terms. When faced with an institutional context shaped and embedded by an earlier, now by and large foregone Industrial Society, a shift towards Project Society can lead to frustration and problems may appear as a result of this imbalance"--