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Project-based practices for promoting a sustainability transition in a city organization and its urban context

Lehtimäki, Hanna, Jokinen, Ari, Pitkänen, Jatta·2023·International Journal of Project Management
DOI 10.1016/j.ijproman.2023.102516
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Projects have become vital in initiating urban sustainability changes. In this study, we address the research gap regarding the dual role of a project in advancing change in public organizations and helping them to adopt roles in initiating and steering urban sustainability transitions. From a practice-theory perspective, we present longitudinal participatory action research on the activities of a project management team in a city organization. Our results show how praxes of a project team without hierarchical authoritative power to give orders or delegate change-related activities in the host organization create organization-level outcomes in the city's organization and urban living lab contexts among external stakeholders. We contribute to project management studies by increasing the understanding of how short-term project activities foster long-term strategic changes in siloed and departmentalized host organizations while at the same time creating outcomes in the external urban living lab context. This provides novel insights into the evolving intermediary roles of projects that support city organizations in acting as leaders in urban sustainability transitions.

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  • An understanding of how short-term projects can foster long-term strategic change and increased cross-project knowledge transfer is needed.

    “An understanding of how short-term projects can foster long-term strategic change (Lehtim ¨ aki et al., 2023) and increased cross-project knowledge transfer (Eikelenboom and van Marrewijk, 2024) are needed.”

    From Rethinking the project life cycle – how circularity challenges processes, roles and governance (2025) · cites this paper as Lehtimäki et al., 2023

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Authors
Lehtimäki, H., Jokinen, A., & Pitkänen, J.
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Venue
International Journal of Project Management
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2023-10
Volume
41
Issue
7
Pages
102516
ISSN
0263-7863
DOI
10.1016/j.ijproman.2023.102516
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22
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  • Academy of Finland (320194, 320209)
  • Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia
  • Strategic Research Council

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