A pragmatist perspective on front-end project organizing: The case of refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster

Participants in the Palace of Westminster's Restoration and Renewal project navigate complex tensions by creating flexible, adaptable strategies that balance immediate feasibility with future-oriented possibilities. This study highlights how pragmatism offers a framework to understand front-end project organizing, emphasizing duality, recursiveness, and temporality. By analyzing real-time longitudinal data, researchers demonstrate how actors cope with challenges through strategic accounts—stable yet adaptable narratives—that enable experimentation and boundary construction. The findings contribute to project management literature by showing how transformative agency is exercised within evolving social contexts, bridging theory and lived experience.

Alimadadi, S. (2022). A pragmatist perspective on front-end project organizing: The case of refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster. International Journal of Project Management, 40(7), 763–777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.08.008