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CHAPTER 18

MANAGEMENT OF THE
PROJECT-ORIENTED

COMPANY ∗

Roland Gareis
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,
Vienna, Austria

Roland Gareis holds an MBA and a Ph.D. He was a Fullbright scholar
at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976, professor for
construction management at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, and visiting professor at the Georgia State University, ETH,
in Zürich, Switzerland, and the University of Quebec in Montreal,
Canada. Since 1983, he has been the director of the postgraduate
program “International Project Management” at the Vienna
University of Business Administration. For 15 years he was president
of Project Management Austria, the Austrian project management
association, he was project manager of the 10th Internet World
Congress on Project Management, and manager of the research
program “Crisis Management.”
Currently, he is professor of project management at the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration, manager of
the global research program “Project Orientation (International),”
and owner of Roland Gareis Consulting. He has published several
books and papers on management of the project-oriented company.

ABSTRACT

Companies and parts of companies, such as divisions, business units, and profit centers,
that use projects and programs as temporary organizations to fulfill relatively unique
business processes of medium to large scope can be defined as project-oriented companies.
Project-oriented companies have specific strategies, specific organizational structures,
and specific cultures for managing projects, programs, and project portfolios. They
apply “management by projects” as an organizational strategy; they have specific inte-
grative organizational structures such as expert pools, a project portfolio group, and a
project management office; and they perform specific business processes such as project
and program management, project portfolio management, etc.

*Parts of this chapter are based on texts of the book “Happy Projects!” by Roland Gareis (Vienna: Manz, 2005).

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