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Replacement of the Project Manager Reflected Through Activity Theory and Work–System Theory

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Replacement of the project manager (RPM) is a known phenomenon in information systems (IS) projects, but scant attention is given to it in the project management or IS literature. Given its critical effects on the project business, the organization, the project team, and the project manager, it should be studied in more depth. We identified factors which make RPM occurrences inherently different and we show that work-system theory and activity theory give comprehensive lenses to advance research on RPM. For the future research on RPM we identified three objectives: experiences on RPM, process model for RPM, and organizational culture’s influence on RPM occurrences.

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  1. Turku School of Economics, Pori Unit, Turku, Finland

    Tero Vartiainen & Kirsi Liikamaa

  2. Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland

    Heli Aramo-Immonen & Jari Jussila

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Maritta Pirhonen

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  1. Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

    William Wei Song

  2. , School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Econom, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China, People's Republic

    Shenghua Xu

  3. Finance & Economics, School of Information Management, Jiangxi University of, Fenglin Rd., Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China, People's Republic

    Changxuan Wan

  4. UFIDA Software Technology College, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economic, Fenglin Rd., Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China, People's Republic

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Vartiainen, T., Aramo-Immonen, H., Jussila, J., Pirhonen, M., Liikamaa, K. (2011). Replacement of the Project Manager Reflected Through Activity Theory and Work–System Theory. In: Song, W., et al. Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7355-9_10

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