Project management in the development of dynamic capabilities

• Autor(a) principal: Patrício, Vânia Isabel Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/26544
• topic: Project management; Dynamic capabilities; Capabilities transformation; Gestão de projetos; Capacidades dinâmicas; Transformação de capacidades

Project management (PM) has become fundamental to management. It is through projects that organizations implement strategies and develop capabilities and resources. However, the literature reflects the difficulty of replicating knowledge from project to project, as well as developing and absorbing the knowledge acquired in projects into routines and operations. This situation has accentuated the importance of research in dynamic capabilities (DCs). The objective of this thesis is to investigate how PM leverages DCs in organizations. After the literature review, mixed methods were used as methodology: qualitative analysis in the study on PM in the development of DCs and quantitative analysis in the study of the impact of PM on the transformation of capabilities. The results point to the importance of the interrelation of the two areas in the success of organizations being the PM provider of empirical knowledge that, through its practices, accumulates, integrates, uses and transforms capabilities, facilitating continuous learning in organizations. The research presents good PM practices that enable organizations to develop and transform capabilities, through the accumulation, integration, use and reconfiguration of knowledge acquired in projects, thus leveraging DCs. This study contributes to the theoretical and empirical discussion of how PM transforms knowledge acquired in projects into routines, practices, and knowledge that enable organizations to develop and transform capabilities in order to respond quickly and systematically to internal and external challenges, thus providing an important contribution to organizations and academia in developing DCs through PM.