International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 13 Issue 4

Project management for social good: A conceptual framework and research agenda for socially sustainable construction project management

Ashish Goel, L.S. Ganesh, Arshinder Kaur

Recent research on construction project management (CPM) envisions addressing wider social good while delivering value to the funding organizations. It is complemented by a…

Managing project complexity: how to cope with multiple dimensions of complex systems

Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio, Victor Meyer

This study aimed to contribute to the field of project management (PM) by exploring the elements of project complexity and how individuals respond to such complexity. Multiple…

Innovation in project management through framing and challenge redefinition

Jorge Sanz-Llopis, Matthias Ostermann

This paper investigates the framing and redefinition of innovation challenges as an approach to generate creative solutions in the field of project management.

Ameliorating time and cost control with project learning and communication management: Leveraging on reusable knowledge assets

Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap, Martin Skitmore

Legions of projects fail to attain their time and cost objectives due to ineffective coordination. This is often due to a lack of essential learning from projects because of…

An exploratory analysis of the project management and corporate sustainability capabilities for organizational success

Hulya Julie Yazici

This study investigates whether corporate sustainability capability (CSC) along with project management maturity (PMM) based capability contribute to perceived organizational…

Value of project management in university–industry R&D collaborations

Gabriela Fernandes, David O' Sullivan, Eduardo B. Pinto, Madalena Araújo, Ricardo J. Machado

University–industry projects provide special challenges in understanding and expressing the values required of project management (PM) in delivering stakeholder benefits. This…

Tensions between compliance, internal controls and ethics in the domain of project governance

Paulo Sergio Scoleze Ferrer, Graziela Darla Araujo Galvão, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho

This study aims to investigate how the dynamics of compliance, internal controls and ethics can generate tensions in the domain of project governance. Moreover, it investigates…

Evolution of project management studies in the XXI century

Sławomir Wawak, Krzysztof Woźniak

The objectives of the study were to demonstrate the suitability of methodology based on a text mining toolset for detecting trends in scientific papers and to find trends that…

How different strengths of ties impact project performance in megaprojects: the mediating role of trust

Guangdong Wu, Huiwen Li, Chunlin Wu, Zhibin Hu

This study aims to investigate the relationships between the different strengths of ties (strong ties and weak ties), types of trust and project performance in megaprojects.

Does flexibility in project management in early project phases contribute positively to end-project performance?

Afshin Jalali Sohi, Marian Bosch-Rekveldt, Marcel Hertogh

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of project management flexibility in early project phases on end-project performance including its mediating role on the effect of…