How Project Resilience Can Be Understood and Built?

The goal of this study is to advance understanding on project resilience by shedding light on resilience practices in a project that is understood as a temporary organization. While doing so, we investigated one specific collaborative and knowledge intensive innovation project, in which knowledge integration is at central core for project outcomes. Temporary innovation projects among diverse actors are grounded by adversities in employment of knowledge base, organizing project activities and interaction with environment. In this qualitative study we investigate resilience practices through which project actors address adversities of innovation project. We identified iterative process, rich interaction and knowledge flows as resilience practices. By shedding light on resilience practices in projects we contribute to research on organizational resilience and suggest that projects are important sources of organizational resilience.