PARENT ORGANISATIONS IMPACT ON TEMPORARY ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR LOGISTICS REQUIREMENTS
Paper in proceeding, 2005

Projects are carried out by temporary organisations. These organisations are often linked to parent organisations but can also be free-standing organisations. How parent organisations impact on temporary organisations is here analysed based on a comparison of employment forms, work processes and resource networks for a number of organisations involved in four different projects. Based on the analysis a discussion on how the existence of a parent organisation can impact on temporary organisationsÂ’ logistics requirements is held. Temporary organisations with parent organisations are noticeably governed by their parent organisations and dependent on their abilities and resource bases. Temporary organisations that lack a parent organisation instead have to rely on their employeesÂ’ skills and contacts to develop suitable routines and gain access to resources. Based on these findings propositions for further research are given.

parent organisation

logistics

project

temporary organisation

Author

Nina Modig

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Logistics & Transportation

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

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10/6/2017