International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 6 Issue 1

The establishment of legitimacy: the case of international projects

The establishment of legitimacy is one of the critical issues faced by international projects that involve a host of stakeholders and are implemented in challenging institutional…

Sustainable development and project stakeholder management: what standards say

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how various approaches to stakeholder management, as well as sustainable development principles, are included in internationally‐used…

How governmental stakeholders influence large projects: the case of nuclear power plant projects

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding on stakeholder influence in large projects, using nuclear power plant projects and a governmental stakeholder that…

Project temporalities: how frogs can become stakeholders

The purpose of this paper is to explore how animals can become stakeholders in interaction with project management technologies and what happens with project temporalities when…

That is not how we brought you up: how is the strategy of a project formed?

The requirements of various participants of a project may conflict with the strategy of the project's parent organization and, consequently, the project may form its individual…

Decoupling and standardization in the projectification of a company

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the change trajectory in a large, global, project‐oriented company, with focus on standardization of project work, and on how…

Robust project portfolio management: capability evolution and maturity

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of project portfolio management (PPM) capability evolution, in order to guide the implementation and ongoing development of…

Managing project portfolios: balancing flexibility and structure by improvising

The purpose of this paper is to situate project portfolio management practice and explore its improvisational nature. The overall aim is to deepen the knowledge of what project…

Evaluating the organizational impact of product development projects

Evaluation of product development projects is quite intuitive and subjective. The purpose of this paper is to analyze decision makers' value perceptions of organizational impact…

Principled success: Eco‐feminism and systems thinking come together for better project outcomes

The purpose of this paper is to report on the product of a ten year study, the PhD thesis, “Feminist Systems Thinking: Principles and Practice”, conferred in April, 2012 by the…

Forthcoming project management events and links

Special issue on project management maturity

Current foci of Nordic approaches to project research

2012 Awards for Excellence

Special issue on ethics in project management

Editorial

Fragility in project-based organizing, and the ways towards robustness