Anna Swärd

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2021)

A Routine Dynamics Lens on the Stability-Change Dilemma in Project-Based Organizations

Project Management Journal, 52(3), s. 278- 286. Doi: 10.1177/8756972820986660

A central issue in project-based organizations (PBOs) is how to balance the need for flexibly responding to changing customer demands and creating consistent performance in the organization at large. This article discusses the relevance of a routine dynamics lens for understanding this dilemma. We show how routine dynamics might help to understand how and under what conditions routines—with their dual capacity for stability and change—produce a variety of performances, some stable and some varying, in the PBO. As such, we contribute to the stream of research that seeks to explain how PBOs build capabilities and how they work.

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2020)

Temporal shaping of routine patterning.

Reinecke, Juliane; Suddaby, Roy, Langley, Ann & Tsoukas, Haridimos (red.). Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2019)

Routines as truces in temporary multi-organizations

Academy of Management Proceedings, 19(1) Doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2019.14878abstract

Swärd, Anna; Vaagaasar, Anne Live & Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth (2019)

On connectivity, temporality, and organizational change processes

Academy of Management Proceedings, 19(1) Doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2019.14641abstract

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth & Swärd, Anna (2019)

Collaborative Project Delivery Models and the Role of Routines in Institutionalizing Partnering

Project Management Journal, 50(2), s. 1- 16. Doi: 10.1177/8756972818820213 - Full text in research archive

It is widely held that collaborative project delivery models, such as partnering, represent a key means of improving construction project performance. Institutionalizing these models in practice, however, is not straightforward. We suggest that the (in)ability to establish new routines may be one reason for the variance in partnering outcomes. Based on a study of a partnering project, we develop a model of how partnering is institutionalized through the establishment of routines, enabled through common understanding and truces between the partners’ interests. The model illustrates how such routines develop through a balance between top-down structural interventions and emergent social learning processes.

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; Swärd, Anna & Djupvik-Flaa, Petrine (2020)

Mer innovasjon og utvikling i bygg og anleggsnæringen: Gjenta samarbeid!

Byggeindustrien [Kronikk]

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; Swärd, Anna, Djupvik-Flaa, Petrine, Stenberg, Synne & Virgenes, Ulrik (2021)

Gjentakende samarbeid i utbyggingsprosjekter: Skaper det verdi og i så fall hvilke verdier og hvordan?

[Report]. Handelshøyskolen BI, Senter for byggenæringen.

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth & Swärd, Anna (2020)

The Role of Middle Managers in the Strategic Renewal Process: From Mediators to Generators

[Academic lecture]. SMS 40th Annual Conference in London.

Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; Swärd, Anna & Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth (2020)

Controlling as caring: Exploring Control-trust dynamics in interorganizational relationships

[Academic lecture]. AOM conference.

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2020)

The role of connective technologies in mediating tensions between temporal logics across organizational levels in project based firms

[Academic lecture]. EURAM.

Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live (2019)

Routines as truces in temporary multi-organizations

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Meeting.