Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53869#.VNm4LSzQrzE Author(s) Leena Pekkinen , Kirsi Aaltonen Affiliation(s) Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland . ABSTRACT Increasingly, projects are executed by networks of organizations. The networked form of organization has many important implications for project risk management. Information processing theories introduce mechanisms for processing information inside organizations as well as among organizations to reduce the uncertainty and equivocality inherently present in international projects. This study aims to examine the risk management practices involved at a project network level through an empirical analysis of one complex large project network executed in a challenging institutional environment. With regard to network level risk management, the paper identifies eight formal information processing m...
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