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CHAPTER 2

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
A BUSINESS PROCESS OF

THE PROJECT-ORIENTED

COMPANY ∗

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

Roland Gareis holds an M.B.A. 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,
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 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,” and
owner of Roland Gareis Consulting. He has published several books
and papers on management of the project-oriented company.

ABSTRACT

Projects are temporary organizations that are used for the performance of relatively
unique short- to medium-term strategically important business processes with medium
to large scope. Project management is a business process of the project-oriented company
that includes the subprocesses project start, continuous project coordination, project con-
trolling, project close-down, and possibly, resolution of a project discontinuity. In the
project management process, project objectives, objects of consideration, project sched-
ules, project costs and project income, project resources, and project risks, as well as the
project organization, the project culture, and the project context, are considered.

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

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