Pryke, S;
Badi, SM;
Soundararaj, B;
Addyman, S;
(2018)
Self-Organizing Networks in Complex Infrastructure Projects.
Project Management Journal
, 49
(2)
pp. 18-41.
10.1177/875697281804900202.
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Abstract
While significant importance is given to establishing formal organizational and contractual hierarchies, existing project management techniques neglect the management of self-organizing networks in large-infrastructure projects. We offer a case-specific illustration of self-organization using network theory as an investigative lens. The findings have shown that these networks exhibit a high degree of sparseness, short path lengths, and clustering in dense “functional” communities around highly connected actors, thus demonstrating the small-world topology observed in diverse real-world self-organized networks. The study underlines the need for these non-contractual functions and roles to be identified and sponsored, allowing the self-organizing network the space and capacity to evolve.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Self-Organizing Networks in Complex Infrastructure Projects |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/875697281804900202 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F875697281804900202 |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | infrastructure projects, team communication, self-organization, social network theory and analysis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1524085 |
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