International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 15 Issue 5

Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing

Derek H.T. Walker, Paulo Vaz Serra, Peter E.D. Love

Price reliability for complex and highly complicated infrastructure projects is problematic. Traditional project delivery approaches generally fail in achieving targeted end cost…

Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders

Sérgio Takahashi, Vania Passarini Takahashi

This study aims to analyze the dynamic of front end development (discover, define and create/analysis and test phases) in the co-creation with multiple stakeholders taking into…

Interorganizational knowledge sharing barriers and enablers: the case of Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit project

Rehab Iftikhar, Catherine Lions

The paper aims at identifying knowledge sharing barriers and enablers in an interorganizational setting at different levels of units. For this purpose, the interorganizational…

The risks and opportunities of social procurement in construction projects: a cross-sector collaboration perspective

Martin Loosemore, Robyn Keast, Josephine Barraket, George Denny-Smith, Suhair Alkilani

This research addresses the lack of project management research into social procurement by exploring the risks and opportunities of social procurement from a cross-sector…

Feeling “holier than thou”: exploring the critical nexus between project governance, exploitative leadership and multi-dimensional success in ICT projects

Umer Zaman, Nadja Damij, Aisha Khaliq, Muhammad Shahid Nawaz, Mahir Pradana

Project managers are under a never-ending pressure to demonstrate the expected value of projects to the project sponsors; however, in most cases, project managers fail to realize…

Impact of the project manager's transformational leadership, influenced by mediation of self-leadership and moderation of empowerment, on project success

Muhammad Khalique Ahmad, Abu Bakar Abdulhamid, Sazali Abd Wahab, Muhammad Umair Nazir

In times of crisis and volatility, especially in the Covid-19 scenario, project organisations are facing multifaceted threats. Project organisations are inclining towards flatter…

Passionate projects: practitioner reflections on emotion management

James Connor, Vanessa McDermott, Wilma Gillies

The fundamental challenge for project management is dealing with people and their feelings. While there has been sporadic attention to the importance of emotions in project work…

Synthesizing extreme context studies in project management journals: introducing a time-based project management typology

Erik Jurgen De Waard, Jori Pascal Kalkman

The present article analyses extreme context studies published in leading project management journals with the aim of developing a time-based typology that could be of value for…