International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 16 Issue 3

Advancing research on project management in hybrid organizations: insights from the social enterprise literature

Jennifer Jewer, Kam Jugdev, Mohammad Farshad Amini

This paper aims to understand the challenges of managing projects in hybrid organizations. The authors explore how organizations with persistent competing institutional logics…

Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value

Ata Babaei, Giorgio Locatelli, Tristano Sainati

Transport megaprojects often struggle to offer social value (SV) that meets local communities' needs. This problem is embedded in how local communities' views are captured and…

Agile project portfolio management as a strategic enabler in the Brazilian marketplace: five case studies and one substantive theory

Eder Junior Alves, Carlos Alberto Gonçalves

The purpose of this study is to present an empirical framework for changes, communication and team restructuring developed through a substantive theory that defines the…

Agile project management as a stage for creativity: a conceptual framework of five creativity-conducive spaces

Mieszko Olszewski

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how agile project management can foster creativity in project teams.

Resilience of operating models: exploring the potential of agile project management as enabler

Maja Due Kadenic, Torben Tambo

Agile project management methods are on the rise compared to linear approaches. The demand for the demonstrable resilience of enterprise processes is likewise strongly increasing…

Crises and capabilities in project-based organizations: conceptual model and empirical evidence

Rehab Iftikhar

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the identification of different types of crises, their impact on project-based organizations' (PBOs) performance and exploring PBOs'…

What Generation Z needs: the role of project-based organizations in creating career sustainability

Jessica Borg, Christina M. Scott-Young, Naomi Borg

As the youngest generation – Generation Z (Gen Z) – enters the workplace, there is a growing interest in this cohort's career needs and expectations. This paper explores the…

Impact of client vendor communication on client satisfaction in information system based projects

Zeeshan Rasool, Jian Xue, Javeria Awesi, Syed Arslan Abbas, Zahid Farooq

The research focuses on the impact of client vendor communication on client satisfaction in information system projects and after client satisfaction that will bridge them toward…

How absorptive capacity influences project performance

Ronaldo Gomes Dultra-de-Lima, Luiz Artur Ledur Brito

The absorptive capacity (AC) leads to firm performance and influences the development and evolution of capabilities and routines, but the influence of AC in projects remains…