What is it about?
How the experience of project leaders promotes a the creation of projects that leverage the strengths of different subsidiaries in multinational companies?
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Why is it important?
We show that project managers with experience in the specific technical challenges associated to a project are less reluctant to include other subsidiaries than the main one, and this is reflected in a 10% average increase in project margins
Perspectives
Normally companies use standardization and modularity to ease interoperability of their subsidiaries in the context of large projects. Yet, often highly innovative project entail non-standard solution that make this approach not fully viable. We find that selecting the right project leader can mitigate this problem. Specifically, project managers with experiences about the unique requirements of a projcet can anticipate where problems will arise and hence are less afraid of allocating project work to different units.
Dr Fabrizio Salvador
IE Business School
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This page is a summary of: Enabling Globally Distributed Projects: Effects of Project Interface Match and Related Technical Experience, Production and Operations Management, December 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/poms.13292.
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