Cattani (strategy and organizations, New York U.) et al. compile 19 chapters by researchers of business, management, innovation, entrepreneurship, and organization studies from Europe, North America, and Singapore, many who participated in community-building efforts at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings from 2008-2010 in Anaheim, Chicago, and Montreal. They focus on research on project-based organizations and its relationship to strategic management and consider the social embeddedness of projects, the learning processes unfolding in project-based settings, and the development of project-related capabilities. They discuss definitions of project-based organizing, how these organizations can serve as a form that arises in response to uncertainty or turbulent environments, cooperative strategies used in the movie industry, the institutionalization processes by which temporary organizations become permanent, how organizations develop new capabilities, strategic responses to standardization, leadership, collaboration in virtual projects, organizations or products associated with multiple categories, and other topics. No index is provided. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
