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Critical success factors of university-industry R&D collaborations
Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Santos, José M.R.C.A.; Ribeiro, Pedro; Ferreira, Luís Miguel D.F.; O'Sullivan, David; Barroso, DanielaUniversity-industry R&D collaborations (UICs) play a vital role in stimulating open innovation that leads to new products, processes, and services that creates value for customers and broader societal impact. UICs, however, commonly fail to meet these stakeholders' benefits. This study identifies thirty-four critical success factors (CSFs) for improving UIC success. The study includes a systematic literature re...
Linking information systems team resilience to project management success
Varajão, João; Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Amaral, António Manuel Pereira da SilvaTeam resilience is a critically essential contributor to team effectiveness. However, the impact of team resilience on project management success has been little studied. This article aims to investigate the influence of team resilience on project management success in the context of information system projects. Using a quantitative study, we show that there is a significant positive relationship between projec...
Project management practice in SMEs: A comparative study of the Portuguese and ...
Watanabe, Cristiano Seiji; Tereso, Anabela Pereira; Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Jespersen, Lars; Vestgaard, JensThe project management practice by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is an urgent demand and a clear concern of European countries for economic reasons in recent years. One major problem in traditional management practices is the focus on efficiency rather than innovation and control rather than empowerment. Several authors mention the existence of a “gap” between the theory and the actual use of projec...
Team resilience model: an empirical examination of information systems projects
Varajão, João; Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Amaral, Antonio; Goncalves, A. ManuelaOrganizations need well-prepared teams to perform their projects with efficiency and effectiveness. In such socio-technical systems, project teams' capability to face and surpass difficulties play a critical role for the organizational reliability. Hence the relevance of studying project team resilience, defined here as the team's ability to deal with problems, overcome obstacles, and quickly recover from adver...
The roles of a programme and project management office to support collaborative...
Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Pinto, Eduardo B.; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Machado, Ricardo J.While the literature provides some advice on managing programmes and projects in general, the specific context of the university–industry collaboration is being scarcely reported, demanding a strong research effort to produce effective guidelines. Pursuing this effort, a Programme and Project Management Office (PgPMO) structure, specifically devoted to support collaborative university–industry R&D funded contra...
Using agile project management in the design and implementation of activity-bas...
Jimenez, Victor; Afonso, Paulo; Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela GomesThe success of a costing system is dependent on its appropriation and assimilation by the organization. The involvement of all stakeholders from the early stages of design and implementation plays a critical role in this process. In this paper, the use of agile project management is investigated to support the design and implementation of more effective costing systems. A Design Science Research approach was fo...
Value of project management in university–industry R&D collaborations
Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; O' Sullivan, David; Pinto, Eduardo B.; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Machado, Ricardo J.Purpose: University–industry projects provide special challenges in understanding and expressing the values required of project management (PM) in delivering stakeholder benefits. This paper presents a framework for understanding, identifying and managing the values of PM in major university–industry R&D projects. Design/methodology/approach: The value framework identifies for each of the key stakeholders, the ...
Improving project management practices in a software development team
Pires, Sara; Tereso, Anabela Pereira; Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela GomesSoftware development projects continue to deliver results that fall short on organization’s expectations. The present research was carried out at InfoPortugal, a technological company specialized in Geographic Information Systems and Tourism and Leisure Solutions, where project management practices were underuse. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to describe the proposals and their implementation to enable ...
Organizational enablers to the governance of collaborative university-industry ...
Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Leite, Sara; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Simões, Ana CorreiaGovernance has a significant impact on the success of programs and projects. However, governance of collaborative university-industry projects and programs in literature, is a rather scarce topic. Based on an ethnographic study of a large university-industry collaboration, this paper proposes a conceptual framework of Organizational Enablers (OEs) to improve the governance of collaborative university-industry R...
Critical factors for benefits realisation in collaborative university-industry ...
Fernandes, Aldora Gabriela Gomes; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Andrade, Rita; Pinto, Eduardo B.; Tereso, Anabela Pereira; Machado, Ricardo J.This study aims to help academics and practitioners to realise the benefits resulting from collaborative university-industry research and development (R&D), by identifying the most critical factors for benefits’ realisation. A literature review was conducted allowing us to compile a list of 33 most acknowledged benefits resulting from university-industry R&D collaborations, and a list of 66 critical factors for...