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The Temporality of Project Success: Vindeby, the World’s First Offshore Wind Farm

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: This article advances a temporal understanding of project success through a process study of Vindeby, an exploratory project developing the world’s first offshore wind farm. Pursuing a situated temporal view, our findings reveal how actors constructed Vindeby’s success differently when seeing the project as future, present, and past and how these constructions mutually shaped each other. Adding to prior literature adopting an over-time or in-time perspective, we develop a through-time perspective of project success and a model explaining the interplay of the three perspectives. We discuss how projects may serve as temporal stepping stones toward sustainable futures in the green transition and propose ways for project managers and policymakers to nurture this potential.

Source: Project Management Journal

DOI: 10.1177/87569728231217231

Authors: Jonathan Feddersen, Henrik Koll, Joana Geraldi

Institutions: Copenhagen Business School, University of Southern Denmark

Language: English

Topic: Construction Project Management and Performance

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Affordable and clean energy, Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funders: Copenhagen Business School, Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Fonden