International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 14 Issue 2

Improving the management of international development projects

Rocío Rodríguez-Rivero, Isabel Ortiz-Marcos, Luis Ballesteros-Sánchez, María Jesús Sánchez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the quintessential methodology of the international development (ID) projects, the logical framework approach (LFA), to find out which…

Conceptualizing project team momentum: a review of the sports literature

Thibaut Coulon, Henri Barki, Guy Paré

The purpose of this paper is to develop a clear and generalizable conceptualization of project team momentum, as well as a detailed and engaging research agenda on this concept.

A review of artificial intelligence based risk assessment methods for capturing complexity-risk interdependencies: Cost overrun in construction projects

Farman Afzal, Shao Yunfei, Mubasher Nazir, Saad Mahmood Bhatti

In the past decades, artificial intelligence (AI)-based hybrid methods have been increasingly applied in construction risk management practices. The purpose of this paper is to…

From “Technical Newbies” to “Optimistic Politicians”: Different factors affecting initial scheduling of IT projects

James Prater, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Tony Ma

Despite the advent of sophisticated control methods, there are still significant issues regarding late delivery of information technology projects. The purpose of this paper is to…

A stakeholder-based risk assessment and intervention framework for international construction projects: A meta-network perspective

Tao Wang, Shangde Gao, Pinchao Liao, Tsenguun Ganbat, Junhua Chen

The purpose of this paper is to construct a two-stage risk management framework for international construction projects based on the meta-network analysis (MNA) approach. A…

Facing the challenge of improvisation in project management: a critical review

Guilherme Malucelli, Marcos T.J. Barbosa, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho

When plans fail, the form of making it happen leads to improvisation in practice, which is not sufficiently approached yet in the project management (PM) field. The main reason…

Next decision node (NDN) planning: an ambidextrous planning model

Greg S. Usher

The purpose of this paper is to address calls from within the existing literature for a planning model that can provide both control and flexibility in dynamic environments.

Analysing causal relationships between delay factors in construction projects: A case study of Iran

Mustafa Jahangoshai Rezaee, Samuel Yousefi, Ripon K. Chakrabortty

Analyzing factors of delays in construction projects and determining their impact on project performance is necessary to better manage and control projects. Identification of root…

Adversarial factors in multi-stakeholders’ engagement of global-IT projects

Krishnan Mysore, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Seungjun Ahn, Tony Ma

Adverse situations negatively impact project stakeholders’ engagement. Past research has sporadically investigated adverse situations affecting stakeholder engagement but lacks a…

Conceptualizing the influence of personality and cognitive traits on project managers’ risk-taking behaviour

Ahmad Rashid, Halim Boussabiane

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the existing project management literature by conceptualizing the influence of personality and cognitive traits on project managers’…

Sham project compliance behaviour: Necessarily masking the reality of project work from senior management

Eric John Darling, Stephen Jonathan Whitty

The purpose of this paper is to examine a case of sham compliance performance reporting through the lens of Goffman’s dramaturgy to reveal its dramaturgical structure. It makes a…

Bundling/unbundling decision in PPP infrastructure projects – the case of Guwahati city, India

Tharun Dolla, Boeing Laishram

Bundled mode of public–private partnership (PPP) procurement has been a widely advocated governance structure of infrastructure delivery. The purpose of this paper is to identify…