Project Planning and Organizational Project Planning Support

Increasing globalization has brought academics and practitioners to study national cultures in management. Likewise,the trend towards running business through projects has brought broader perspectives such as national cultures into project management. Recent academic literature demonstrated that national culture has a major impact on management practices. However,the element of national culture is elusively described in the project management field. No extensive tests were found on the comparison of the project planning among countries,which could help to establish relationship between national cultures and project planning capabilities. Therefore, using GLOBE study to capture national cultures and Project Management Planning Quality(PMPQ) model to capture project planning approach and organizational planning support,this book compares national culture, project planning and organizational project planning support across four different countries: Malaysia,Japan,Sweden and Israel. It answers questions about the relevance of national culture to project planning and concludes with implications to project managers.