| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, the use of project work in organizations has had an increasing trend. The use of project-work offers a structured and effective way to manage complex tasks and achieve desired outcomes. Working through projects offer a range of benefits, including enhanced efficiency, collaboration, strategic alignment, higher level of flexibility and agility. For the success of project work, organizational agility is particularly crucial as it enables organizations to respond rapidly to changing circumstances. Projects empower organizations to respond to new market conditions, customer demands, and emerging technologies, demonstrating a high level of agility.
With the increasing adoption of project-based methodologies across various industries in the Western world, organizational agility has become increasingly critical in today's business landscape. Although projectification is an important trend, it remains uncertain whether it is correlated with organizational agility. Given the significance of organizational agility in project management, this master thesis aims to explore the relationship between projectification and organizational agility within the Norwegian economy.
The investigation has been done through a primary data collection of 205 organizations, representing diverse industries and sizes. We have developed a metric to quantify the degree of projectification in the Norwegian economy, as well as evaluate the extent to which organizations perceive themselves as being agile. Further we have analyzed and tested how projectification affects a firm's organizational agility both in general for the Norwegian economy, difference between small- and medium and large firms as well as for specific industry groups. The results show that projectification is an increasing phenomenon in the Norwegian economy and that organizational agility is influenced by the degree of projectification. The research will thus contribute to investigating the importance of project-based work, factors influencing it and how it can lead to better organizational agility. | |
