Conflicting Notions of a Project: The Battle Between Albert O. Hirschman and Bent Flyvbjerg

Kristian Kreiner

doi:10.1177/8756972820930535

Conflicting Notions of a Project: The Battle Between Albert O. Hirschman and Bent Flyvbjerg

Kristian Kreiner^*

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Department of Organization

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Abstract

The field of project management has erected an impressive edifice of knowledge that apparently hinders us in learning anything from experience except what we already know. We will use the recent controversy between Hirschman and Flyvbjerg to trace this academic imposition to a narrow notion of a project and to find inspiration in a radically different notion for opening the field to new types of issues and lessons.

Original language	English
Journal	Project Management Journal
Volume	51
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	400-410
Number of pages	11
ISSN	8756-9728
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/8756972820930535
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020

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Published online: 22. June 2020

Keywords

Hiding Hand
Practical judgment
Project notions
Project success
Providential Ignorance

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