Center for Research on Project Business (CROPS)

The global industrial field is under constant change: industrial operations increasingly concentrate on complex solutions delivered as projects. Center for Research on Project Business investigates value creation in organizations and inter-organizational relationships, particularly in project business. The emphasis is on the strategic phenomena that organizations face in their project business throughout the lifecycle of complex systems and during the renewal of organizations.

Our mission is to support Finnish and international organizations in the renewal of their project business, and to generate new knowledge in the international research field. The goal is to promote sustainable value creation in the society through high-quality research, education and practical influence. The group’s research focuses on the following themes:

•Management and organization of project business;

•Value creation in inter-organizational project business;

•Sustainability over the lifecycles of industrial solutions;

•Strategic change and process innovations in industrial firms; and

•Projectification of industries.

We deploy our mission through research and development projects and basic, doctoral and continuing education in collaboration with industrial firms, public sector organizations and other research institutions. We participate actively in the most significant international research networks in our field.