...António Monteiro; João Varajão; Vitor Santos Purpose The strategic use of technology and adequate support are essential in modern project management, directly influencing successful results and organizational development. Project managers play a fundamental role in achieving project success...

...Pernille Eskerod; Svend Hollensen Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore which insights the hero’s journey framework provides to the micro-level perspective of the process a project manager goes through in a project. Design/methodology/approach The study design involves a longitudinal...

...Muhammad Khalique Ahmad; Abu Bakar Abdulhamid; Sazali Abd Wahab; Muhammad Umair Nazir Results show that a project manager's transformational leadership behaviour and employee self-leadership positively impact project success. Additionally, self-leadership mediates the relationship between...

... prepositions of career sustainability perspective, which appears particularly suitable for examining project managers' careers' dynamics and patterns, featured by explicit and recursive interactions between individual, temporal and contextual factors. Second, the study aimed to adopt a qualitative approach...

...Suzana Sampaio; Qiong Wu; Kathryn Cormican; João Varajão Purpose The issue of project managers’ competencies has gained much traction in practice and more recently in academic debate. However, they have become analogous to extensive wish lists where a project manager is expected to have...

...Shankar Sankaran; Anne Live Vaagaasar; Michiel Christian Bekker Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how project managers, influence the assignment of project team members by directly assigning or specifying who they want or by indirectly using lateral influence strategies to secure...

...Sina Moradi; Kalle Kähkönen; Kirsi Aaltonen Purpose The success of projects clearly relies on project management personnel and particularly on project managers. Their performance and capacities are based on the achieved competencies. The purpose of this paper is to address possible discrepancies...

... re-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to identify and investigate the main challenges that project managers (PMs) face in the current projectification environment. This research was conducted by means of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The participants...

...Jeferson Carvalho Alvarenga; Robson Rosa Branco; André Luis Azevedo Guedes; Carlos Alberto Pereira Soares; Wainer da Silveira e Silva Purpose The past few decades have produced a number of investigations into the correlation between project managers’ competencies and project success. As a result...

... of project type. Design/methodology/approach The mixed method was used and supported by survey questionnaire and semi-structured interview questionnaire. In total, 102 project managers as well as 11 senior project managers and people supervising project managers assigned to the projects participated...

...Abdullah A. Khawam; Nancy S. Bostain Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the primary research question, which is what is the relationship between the project manager’s (PM) possession of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and the level of the safety culture present...

... practitioners in identifying what kind of project manager they currently are, suggesting how they might transition into a different project manager type to increase their project management success rate. This paper conceptualises project managers and how their personal traits relate to project success...

...Michelle Turner; Anthony Mariani Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the work-family experience of projects managers working in the construction industry, and identify how they manage their work-family interface. Design/methodology/approach – Structured interviews were...

...Shankar Sankaran, Nilgün Okay and Gerhard Chroust; Morten Emil Berg; Jan Terje Karlsen Purpose – This study provides insight into how project managers can use leadership tools to encourage and develop positive emotions among the project team members toward greater overall project success...

... is fundamentally important to resolving project‐based challenges, such as adjusting the detail of or re‐sequencing tasks, that major contractors frequently face. Even though a number of organisational initiatives were in place, knowledge was most successfully mobilised due to project managers, who competently...

... of project organizing presented in the book. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents the main ideas in the book, along with a few important issues to organization theory, including interdependence, timing, and the role of project management. Findings The paper demonstrates that the book...