Exploring projectification in the public sector: the case of the next stage review implementation programme in the department of health

摘要

Objective: Public projects are used to delivery policy objectives. From a financialperspective, the Major Projects Authority (MPA) estimated a whole life investmentof £488 billion for 199 major projects in 2014, only a small subset of the totalnumber of public projects. Given the financial exposure, the impact of endemicpublic project failures could put the economic health of the nation at risk. Thisthesis studies the challenges facing public projects. It applies an organisationalcapabilities lens to investigate projectification, when organisations shift away fromfunctional-based organising (FBO) toward project-based organising (PBO).Research Design: This study adopts an interpretivist research paradigm, with aconstructionist epistemology and an idealist ontology, and employs an abductiveresearch strategy. Structurally, it follows the Cranfield Executive Doctorate inBusiness Administration (DBA) methodology, with a linking document thatsummarises three complementary research projects: a systematic literaturereview (SLR) followed by two empirical studies that investigate the Department ofHealth (DoH) during the early phases of the Next Stage Review ImplementationProgramme (NSRIP). The findings are derived from over 250 academic literaturesources, 100 government publications and 41 semi-structured interviews. ...[cont.]