Projects and project teams have
been hailed in both practitioner and academic discourses as
unique economic and social processes on which the emerging
"knowledge economy" heavily relies (Briner & Hastings,
1994; Clarke 1999; Cleland, 1997; Cleland & Ireland, 2002;
Frame, 1994, 1995; Meredith & Mantel, 2003; Young,
2003). They are promoted as universally applicable templates
for integrating, by design,