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AB - Article history: Digital delivery of complex projects, using integrated software and processes, is an important emerging Received 11 June 2013 phenomenon as it transforms relationships across the associated ecology of project-based firms. Our Received in revised form 8 February 2016 study analyses how a project-based firm, ‘Global Engineering’, builds new project capabilities for digital Accepted 21 October 2016 delivery through work on three major road and railway infrastructure projects. We find that it seeks to: (1) Available online 10 November 2016 align the project set-up with the firm’s existing capabilities; and (2) reconcile differing agendas and capa- bilities in collaborating firms across the project ecology. Here, aligning involves influencing the set-up of Keywords: digital delivery and renegotiating that set-up during project implementation; and reconciling involves Project capabilities managing across multiple digital systems; accommodating and learning other firms’ software and pro- Infrastructure cesses; and using digital technologies to create shared identity across the firms involved in delivery. We Digital delivery argue that creating relative stability enables firms to use existing, and build new, project capabilities, Project-based firm Complex projects and hence aligning and reconciling are important to project-based firms in environments where there is Learning high interdependence across heterogeneous firms 
TI - Aligning and Reconciling: Building project capabilities for digital delivery
JF - Research Policy
DO - 10.1016/j.respol.2016.10.005
DA - 2017-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/aligning-and-reconciling-building-project-capabilities-for-digital-0EzdZHfnJ6
DP - DeepDyve
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