Despite calls for taking the “organizing”-aspect of temporary organizations seriously, there is still a need for theory development in this area. By applying the concept of “trajectories” to an empirical story of a project, this paper aims at re-conceptualizing “the temporary organization” as changing across time and space between two empirically driven modes; “goal seeking” and “goal oriented”. This is done, we argue, through shifts of the trajectory of the particular “project” at hand.

Keywords Projects, Trajectory, Goal seeking, Goal oriented, Process ontology, Temporary organizations, Temporary organizing