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To deal with the viking approach to project management may sound like a bit of a joke: What has the viking approach to do with today’s project management in the Nordic countries and elsewhere?
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The first presentation of the article at the NORDNET-INTERNET-PMI conference in Reykjavik ‘87 the author represented the NORDNET which is a cooperation forum for the Nordic project management associations in Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden - and with contact to Denmark where the association was terminated by ‘85. The label NORDNET intends to reflect the relationship to INTERNET, but we do not have any separate organization with its own by-laws. According to our unwritten “by-law” we can have a fruitful cooperation if each association, continuously contribute actively - and no association is trying to dominate the others.
In May’ 88 the article was first published in the International Journal of Project Management.
At the closing of the seventh INTERNET World Congress’ 82, Geert Hofstede from the Netherlands decribed consequences of culture differences in work-related values. A remarkable conclusion of his Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation is that the values determining work relations are changing very slowly.
by Johan Ottosen published in Copenhagen in 1902. This book has been a major source of the introduction to The Viking Approach wherefore it may not fully correspond to the latest wisdom from historical scientists. Furthermore, the author of this paper has added some reflections on his own account.
The visions of the project organized society and the company management like project management was presented at the first NORDNET symposiom which took place in Stockholm 1983 — and the latest development seems to prove a tendency in that direction. For instance, at a Nordic symposium in 85 in Copenhagen, a seminar on “Corporate Management just like project management” draw a larger audience than any other topic.
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Fangel, M. (1990). The Viking Approach to Project Management. In: Reschke, H., Schelle, H. (eds) Dimensions of Project Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49344-7_7
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