Project Selection and Portfolio, Social Relationship Network Change and Strategic Adjustment of an Enterprise——A Longitudinal Case Study Based on Municipal Infrastructure Industry

Abstract

Abstract:

Through long-term tracking and analyzing target enterprises from the dynamic perspective of social relation networks, this pa-per reveals the composition of an enterprise's social relationship network, measures the changes of its social relationship networks and sub-networks through the behavior main body of networks, the relation content of networks and the relation structure of networks. Then, the paper explores the heterogeneous effects of these sub-network changes on the enterprise' s project selection and the strategic adjust-ment, constructs a process model from enterprise's social relation network changes to enterprise's strategic adjustment, confirms the in-ference that the enterprise's strategic adjustment can be a natural evolution. Finally, facing the popular opinion that strategy is a guide of an enterprise in selecting project and structuring portfolio, this paper argues that an enterprise can also select project and structure portfo-lio first and then set up its strategy, thus making it easy to make necessary adjustments to the strategy. The concepts put forward and con-firmed by the paper not only enrich the connotation of the theory of enterprise strategy and the theory of project management but also pro-vide guidance for the practice of strategic adjustment and project management.

Key words: enterprise social relation networks change, project selection and portfolio, strategic adjustment, case study

Shen Zhifeng, Jiao Yuanyuan, Li Zhihui, Fu Shihui, Xiong Jianfang. Project Selection and Portfolio, Social Relationship Network Change and Strategic Adjustment of an Enterprise——A Longitudinal Case Study Based on Municipal Infrastructure Industry[J]. , 2018, 30(2): 256-272.

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