TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating Tensions to Create Value
T2 - An Institutional Logics Perspective on the Change Program and Its Organizational Context
AU - Farid, Parinaz
AU - Waldorff, Susanne Boch
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Research has emphasized the need to understand change programs’ value creation (VC) within their organizational context. This article employs institutional logics to explore the change program–organizational context interface, and investigates how program management actors navigate the interface to create value. A longitudinal comparative study was conducted during the execution of two public-sector municipal merger programs. Contributing to the theory on change program VC by identifying change programs and contexts as different logics, findings show that perspectives on VC may conflict. We theorize navigation practices of problematizing, designing, and team building to resolve the tensions and facilitate program VC.
AB - Research has emphasized the need to understand change programs’ value creation (VC) within their organizational context. This article employs institutional logics to explore the change program–organizational context interface, and investigates how program management actors navigate the interface to create value. A longitudinal comparative study was conducted during the execution of two public-sector municipal merger programs. Contributing to the theory on change program VC by identifying change programs and contexts as different logics, findings show that perspectives on VC may conflict. We theorize navigation practices of problematizing, designing, and team building to resolve the tensions and facilitate program VC.
KW - Value creation
KW - Change program
KW - Organizational context
KW - Public sector
KW - Municipality organization
KW - Institutional logics
KW - Practices
KW - Value creation
KW - Change program
KW - Organizational context
KW - Public sector
KW - Municipality organization
KW - Institutional logics
KW - Practices
U2 - 10.1177/87569728221111321
DO - 10.1177/87569728221111321
M3 - Journal article
SN - 8756-9728
VL - 53
SP - 547
EP - 566
JO - Project Management Journal
JF - Project Management Journal
IS - 6
ER -