Information Technology as a Facilitator of Social Processes in Project Management and Collaborative Work

"This book examines the cutting edge of PM in the form of software as electronic mediation of work. It examines three areas: PM as a social process in the implementation of IT; IT as a social process of work; and theories and models of collaboration and facilitation by IT and Project Management"--

Tim Bagwell is an Associate Professor Public Administration at American Public University/American Military University and an adjunct professor in Project Management at Saint Louis University. Tim has a decade of teaching experience in Public Administration, Project Management, Political Science, Media Studies and Speech Communication and eBusiness.

Robert Cropf is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Public Policy Studies at Saint Louis University. His recent publications include Creating an Accelerated Joint BA-MPA Degree Program for Adult Learners in the Journal of Public Affairs Education (Spring/Summer 2007) coauthored with Jennifer Kohler, and E-Government in Saudi Arabia: Between Promise and Reality in the International Journal of Electronic Government Research (April-June 2008), coauthored with Maher Al-Fakhri, Patrick Kelly, and Gary Higgs. His textbook Public Administration in the 21st Century was published by Pearson-Longman in 2007. His research interests include e-government and e-democracy, urban government and politics, and public administration pedagogical theory.