Thus, increasingly technology-based as well as service-providing companies,
operating in dynamic environments, organize their operational
and development activities in projects (DeFilippi and Arthur, 1998; Gann
and Salter, 1998; Hobday, 2000; Prencipe and Tell, 2001; Grabher,
2002a). Therefore, companies that privilege strongly the project dimension,
and carry out most of their activities in projects, are referred to as
project-based companies