COMMUNICATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: SEEDS FOR A NEW CONCEPTUAL APPROACH

In the vast majority of project management literature, communication is treated from a «fayolienne» perspective. In the workplace, project managers, still using traditional models by default, begin to ask for new propositions. At a time when new management theories present communication as a strategic activity, it seems urgent to reconsider the relation between communication and project. A recent empirical study is presented to stress this specific point. Some of its results show that communication, mostly made of social exchanges, is the very heart of the project.

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