Purpose – Projects almost invariably involve a variety of diversely skilled people from different national, organisational, and professional cultural backgrounds. These people come together for a specific period of time to accomplish certain unique, unpredictable, and complex objectives. These...

How does the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) process improvement methodology affect organizational learning? The emerging literature on Six Sigma and organizational learning is sparse regarding the specific impact of DMAIC. We bridge this gap with an embedded,...

This paper reports on activities and results of a partnership approach to an in-house innovation learning project (ILP) that sought to leave a legacy of skills, expertise and experience to be retained and repeated in-house for participating owner-managed Small and Medium-sized Enterprises...

This paper attempts to remedy the inattention heretofore paid to the action project in the work-based learning literature. It begins with the assertion that there can be no substitute for real-time experience in human resource planning and development programs. Action projects afford real-time...

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of potential and realized absorptive capacity on project success through both the mediating roles of strategic agility and the moderating role of project complexity. A simple random sampling was used to collect data from 285 respondents working in...