Project Planning and Control in Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations: A Literature Review

Abstract

Formal project planning and control systems include planning, measuring, and monitoring functions that enable the development of project plans and the comparison between the planned project objectives and the actual project performance. Social and solidarity economy brings new challenges to the project management discipline, especially on project planning and control, which need to be performed in an unusual context. In this paper, we review the project management literature in social and solidarity economy organizations to evaluate the main control issues faced by project managers working in this context. The AACE framework for project control plan implementation is used to classify the current literature in that domain. Our analysis shows that only three of the fourteen processes of the framework are covered, namely project scope and execution strategy development, resource planning and project performance assessment.