Construction project management fiction: Individual values

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چکیده

Works of fiction are used in organizational studies for pedagogical purposes and as sources data. The aim here is to analyse fictional treatments construction project management, with a focus on managers’ individual values. Fourteen novels, two short stories four plays included. Among the 18+18 Rokeach values, imagination, love, ambition, courage happiness frequently highlighted by authors. Earlier research managers has not shown imagination love be important. Studying offers broader representation human aspects work, such unethical behaviour, than can gained from biographies, interviews questionnaires. literature more purposes. relation between commitments their personal ties outside context recurring topic fiction.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Project Management

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1873-4634', '0263-7863']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.04.005