Shankar Sankaran
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4144918 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shankar Sankaran |
| PRENOMES | Shankar |
| SOBRENOME | Sankaran |
| ASSINATURA | SANKARAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5485-6216 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Examining Grand Challenges Through a Systems Thinking Lens
In this article, we present an innovative 4-day intensive course which responds to the urgent need to explore issues related to the grand challenges of our time. The course was iteratively designed and developed over a 14-year period. It is designed to utilize systems thinking ideas within a management education domain to deepen student capabilities of collaboratively dealing with complex socio-ecological challenges. The aim is to encourage devel…
Empowering Managers to Adopt Multimethodological Intervention Strategies to Address Complex Problematic Situations
Michael Jackson's early work on the development of the Systems of System Methodologies recognised that problem situations can be complex, across both decision‐makers and systems. Jackson later advocated for methodological complementarity in his works on critical systems thinking, suggesting that ‘hard’, ‘soft’ and ‘emancipatory’ approaches may all have a role to play depending on the complexities of a problem situation. We used Jackson's ideas to…
Hiding in plain sight
We argue that the current environment in higher education is one of the primary drivers for the widespread adoption of concealment tactics with the aim of enhancing wellbeing. To explore the relationship between concealment and wellbeing, we draw upon Scott’s conceptualization of “hidden transcripts” and Keyes’s five dimensions of social wellbeing. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we examine a 2-year period of individual and collectiv…
Building person-centred homes
A case study of 20 families investigated a cluster design of new homes for 15 adults with intellectual disabilities in Australia. It explored how families created a cluster home model for adults to live in their own homes with paid support in a modern context by answering three research questions: What type of home did parents choose for their children with intellectual disabilities and why? What type of home did they achieve? How did they overco…
The social pillar of sustainable development
Social sustainability, the social pillar of sustainable development, has had increasing influences in recent years. It pursues the realisation of human well‐being and focuses on satisfying human needs and improving the quality of life. Unfortunately, there is a lack of social sustainability research in the aged care sector. The definition and indicators for social sustainability in aged care projects in the Chinese context are unclear, let alone …
Systemic innovation
Energy justice in renewable energy projects
This article is aimed at organisations and researchers to urge them to adopt more systemic ways to deal with energy justice issues in renewable energy projects being built around the world to help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) 7. It will focus on solar and wind farms. While these projects positively contribute towards achieving UNSDG 7 (viz., affordable clean energy), they have also created a variety of justice issu…
Systemic change towards sustainable development
The history and future of projects as a transition innovation
Project management practices have evolved as the discipline grew from managing defence and engineering projects to delivering information systems, supporting organizational transformation, and managing megaprojects supporting national infrastructure needs. Thus, from starting as a tactical tool, project management grew to deliver organizational and national strategies. The next challenge for project management is to support the achievement of sus…
Creating a ‘sustainability sublime’ to enable megaprojects to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals
Despite cost and schedule overruns and benefits shortfalls, megaprojects (which are large‐scale projects that typically cost over a billion dollars and take years to develop and build) continue to be promoted and built creating a megaproject paradox. Prominent megaproject scholar Bent Flyvbjerg (2014) argued that this could be motivated by four ‘sublimes’—technological, political, economic and aesthetic that drive new megaprojects being put forwa…
Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the totality of project-related work at the organizational level, providing a view of organizations as a network of projects to be coordinated among themselves, integrated by the more permanent organization, an…
Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
Introduction to Part IV
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Introduction to Part III
© Cambridge University Press 2017. The management of people is as a key factor that contributes to the success of projects at any level in an organization. Part III includes topics from prominent authors from areas that are allied to OPM, such as sociology, psychology, and human resource management, where the authors discuss various aspects of people and their activities in OPM. Part III starts with Chapter 11 “Human Resource Management in Organi…
Value Co-creation with Stakeholders Using Action Research as a Meta-methodology in a Funded Research Project
A large applied research study is a challenging exercise in project management and is often unpredictable because of its complexity. In the beginning, funding bodies, ethics committees, and participating organizations expect a plan of what is intended. As the research evolves, researchers must meet the expectations of stakeholders while being responsive to the emergent reality that the research faces and partly uncovers. This article describes ac…
Do Research Thesis Examiners Need Training
We are thesis examiners within the Australian academic system who formed a “community of practice” to try to resolve some of the issues we were facing. Stories of examiners reflecting on and examining their own practice are a notable silence in the higher degree research literature. In this study we have adopted a storytelling inquiry method that involved telling our practitioner stories, firstly to each other and then to a wider audience through…
Systems thinking
Purpose: This paper seeks to address complexity in project management via an innovative course that focuses on systems thinking. Design/methodology/approach: Intuitions about systems thinking evident in everyday language are developed and applied to phases of the system development life cycle. Findings: Complexity in project management may be tamed by systems thinking. Surprisingly, project managers do not seem to use simple systems thinking tool…
Action Research Special Issue on
Singing different tunes from the same song sheet
In a move consistent with co-generated learning, this article is co-written by teachers of action research and a former student. Before we present the content and structure of the actual course, we write about the vital issues in teaching action research. We then describe the course and finally hear a former student (himself now supervising doctoral students) on the merits of this particular approach to learning AR as a doctoral student. This art…
Notes from the field
I had the pleasure of meeting several action researchers across the USA during my sabbatical late last year. The multiple purposes for my visit to the USA were to meet doctoral students doing their research in organizational change and development in Hawaii; interview prominent action researchers in the US about examining action research dissertations; and to have discussions with action researchers on ways to increase conversations among action …
Singing different tunes from the same song sheet
In a move consistent with co-generated learning, this article is co-written by teachers of action research and a former student. Before we present the content and structure of the actual course, we write about the vital issues in teaching action research. We then describe the course and finally hear a former student (himself now supervising doctoral students) on the merits of this particular approach to learning AR as a doctoral student. This art…
Systems thinking
Purpose: This paper seeks to address complexity in project management via an innovative course that focuses on systems thinking. Design/methodology/approach: Intuitions about systems thinking evident in everyday language are developed and applied to phases of the system development life cycle. Findings: Complexity in project management may be tamed by systems thinking. Surprisingly, project managers do not seem to use simple systems thinking tool…
Empowering Managers to Adopt Multimethodological Intervention Strategies to Address Complex Problematic Situations
Michael Jackson's early work on the development of the Systems of System Methodologies recognised that problem situations can be complex, across both decision‐makers and systems. Jackson later advocated for methodological complementarity in his works on critical systems thinking, suggesting that ‘hard’, ‘soft’ and ‘emancipatory’ approaches may all have a role to play depending on the complexities of a problem situation. We used Jackson's ideas to…
The social pillar of sustainable development
Social sustainability, the social pillar of sustainable development, has had increasing influences in recent years. It pursues the realisation of human well‐being and focuses on satisfying human needs and improving the quality of life. Unfortunately, there is a lack of social sustainability research in the aged care sector. The definition and indicators for social sustainability in aged care projects in the Chinese context are unclear, let alone …
Notes from the field
I had the pleasure of meeting several action researchers across the USA during my sabbatical late last year. The multiple purposes for my visit to the USA were to meet doctoral students doing their research in organizational change and development in Hawaii; interview prominent action researchers in the US about examining action research dissertations; and to have discussions with action researchers on ways to increase conversations among action …
Notes from the field
I had the pleasure of meeting several action researchers across the USA during my sabbatical late last year. The multiple purposes for my visit to the USA were to meet doctoral students doing their research in organizational change and development in Hawaii; interview prominent action researchers in the US about examining action research dissertations; and to have discussions with action researchers on ways to increase conversations among action …
Singing different tunes from the same song sheet
In a move consistent with co-generated learning, this article is co-written by teachers of action research and a former student. Before we present the content and structure of the actual course, we write about the vital issues in teaching action research. We then describe the course and finally hear a former student (himself now supervising doctoral students) on the merits of this particular approach to learning AR as a doctoral student. This art…
Action Research Special Issue on
Systems thinking
Purpose: This paper seeks to address complexity in project management via an innovative course that focuses on systems thinking. Design/methodology/approach: Intuitions about systems thinking evident in everyday language are developed and applied to phases of the system development life cycle. Findings: Complexity in project management may be tamed by systems thinking. Surprisingly, project managers do not seem to use simple systems thinking tool…
Value Co-creation with Stakeholders Using Action Research as a Meta-methodology in a Funded Research Project
A large applied research study is a challenging exercise in project management and is often unpredictable because of its complexity. In the beginning, funding bodies, ethics committees, and participating organizations expect a plan of what is intended. As the research evolves, researchers must meet the expectations of stakeholders while being responsive to the emergent reality that the research faces and partly uncovers. This article describes ac…
Do Research Thesis Examiners Need Training
We are thesis examiners within the Australian academic system who formed a “community of practice” to try to resolve some of the issues we were facing. Stories of examiners reflecting on and examining their own practice are a notable silence in the higher degree research literature. In this study we have adopted a storytelling inquiry method that involved telling our practitioner stories, firstly to each other and then to a wider audience through…
Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
In recent years, organizational project management (OPM) has emerged as a field focused on how project, program and portfolio management practices strategically help firms realize organizational goals. There is a compelling need to address the totality of project-related work at the organizational level, providing a view of organizations as a network of projects to be coordinated among themselves, integrated by the more permanent organization, an…
Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
Introduction to Part IV
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Introduction to Part III
© Cambridge University Press 2017. The management of people is as a key factor that contributes to the success of projects at any level in an organization. Part III includes topics from prominent authors from areas that are allied to OPM, such as sociology, psychology, and human resource management, where the authors discuss various aspects of people and their activities in OPM. Part III starts with Chapter 11 “Human Resource Management in Organi…
Creating a ‘sustainability sublime’ to enable megaprojects to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals
Despite cost and schedule overruns and benefits shortfalls, megaprojects (which are large‐scale projects that typically cost over a billion dollars and take years to develop and build) continue to be promoted and built creating a megaproject paradox. Prominent megaproject scholar Bent Flyvbjerg (2014) argued that this could be motivated by four ‘sublimes’—technological, political, economic and aesthetic that drive new megaprojects being put forwa…
Systemic change towards sustainable development
The history and future of projects as a transition innovation
Project management practices have evolved as the discipline grew from managing defence and engineering projects to delivering information systems, supporting organizational transformation, and managing megaprojects supporting national infrastructure needs. Thus, from starting as a tactical tool, project management grew to deliver organizational and national strategies. The next challenge for project management is to support the achievement of sus…
Systemic innovation
Energy justice in renewable energy projects
This article is aimed at organisations and researchers to urge them to adopt more systemic ways to deal with energy justice issues in renewable energy projects being built around the world to help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) 7. It will focus on solar and wind farms. While these projects positively contribute towards achieving UNSDG 7 (viz., affordable clean energy), they have also created a variety of justice issu…
Hiding in plain sight
We argue that the current environment in higher education is one of the primary drivers for the widespread adoption of concealment tactics with the aim of enhancing wellbeing. To explore the relationship between concealment and wellbeing, we draw upon Scott’s conceptualization of “hidden transcripts” and Keyes’s five dimensions of social wellbeing. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we examine a 2-year period of individual and collectiv…
Building person-centred homes
A case study of 20 families investigated a cluster design of new homes for 15 adults with intellectual disabilities in Australia. It explored how families created a cluster home model for adults to live in their own homes with paid support in a modern context by answering three research questions: What type of home did parents choose for their children with intellectual disabilities and why? What type of home did they achieve? How did they overco…
The social pillar of sustainable development
Social sustainability, the social pillar of sustainable development, has had increasing influences in recent years. It pursues the realisation of human well‐being and focuses on satisfying human needs and improving the quality of life. Unfortunately, there is a lack of social sustainability research in the aged care sector. The definition and indicators for social sustainability in aged care projects in the Chinese context are unclear, let alone …
Empowering Managers to Adopt Multimethodological Intervention Strategies to Address Complex Problematic Situations
Michael Jackson's early work on the development of the Systems of System Methodologies recognised that problem situations can be complex, across both decision‐makers and systems. Jackson later advocated for methodological complementarity in his works on critical systems thinking, suggesting that ‘hard’, ‘soft’ and ‘emancipatory’ approaches may all have a role to play depending on the complexities of a problem situation. We used Jackson's ideas to…
Examining Grand Challenges Through a Systems Thinking Lens
In this article, we present an innovative 4-day intensive course which responds to the urgent need to explore issues related to the grand challenges of our time. The course was iteratively designed and developed over a 14-year period. It is designed to utilize systems thinking ideas within a management education domain to deepen student capabilities of collaboratively dealing with complex socio-ecological challenges. The aim is to encourage devel…
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