Despite the widespread use of project risk management, the results of such efforts are often underwhelming. Do project risk management practices somehow miss the point? To explore this idea I use a critical management studies framework to study project risk management. The approach prescribed in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge is compared to the very different approach of a professional project manager. A theorised analysis of the difference between these approaches finds that they employ the logic of different knowledge-constitutive interests thereby making them suitable for different purposes. The study concludes with a discussion of how the results of this analysis can be presented to practitioners in a way consistent with the emancipatory agenda of critical management studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/183255 |
| Creators | Busch, Adrian |
| Publisher | Massey University. Department of Management |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Detected Language | English |
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