COMPLEXITY, DESIGN AND PROJECT COMPLETION: A STUDY OF CLINICAL TRIALS

• DOI: 10.37572/EdArt_15122313013

• Palavras-chave: Project management, organization design, complexity, coordination

• Keywords: Project management, organization design, complexity, coordination

• Abstract:

  This study investigates design choices that determine project performance in a project management setting. Clinical trials are complex endeavors requiring contributions to and supervision of the clinical trial process. Each trial varies on several dimensions including the extent to which complexity plays a role in managing relationships with partners and overseeing distributed tasks related to clinical trial processes. Using data from 7648 Diabetes trials between the years of 1990 and 2023, I examine the effects of resource complexity, task breadth and resource applicability on the completion of clinical trials. The results show that resource complexity and task breadth increase the time to completion, whereas the availability of resources has the opposite effect. Partner complexity also contributes to increasing the time to completion. The implications of these findings for theories of coordination and organizational design and management of distributed R&D work are discussed.       

• Número de páginas: 26