...Cornelis Cristo van Waveren; Leon Oerlemans; Marthinus W. Pretorius Purpose Transferring project knowledge is challenging due to the temporary nature and the intense focus on deliverables and milestones. Existing transfer models often overlook the various conditions for project knowledge transfer...

...Carl Marnewick; Lavagnon Ika; Christophe Bredillet Purpose While project practitioners confront a minefield of misbehaviours, ethical decision-making remains insufficiently understood. Ethical tensions prevail particularly in Africa since project management education and training are based...

... and organizational culture, in the project context. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopted survey-based research approach. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), applying the SmartPLS 3.0 software. Findings The results show the significant...

...Yannick Kalff Purpose Project studies analyse either managing practices or the temporal nature of project management, which leaves open a research gap: the temporality of managing practice. The paper demonstrates that performativity theory with a temporal perspective helps us to understand how...

... societal problems. This study provides insights into how research rigour and relevance could be improved. This research provides unique perspective and insight into the reasons action research continues to struggle for legitimacy Projects Action research Legitimacy Donald Schon...

... and projects by applying process perspectives on these two fields with the ambition to shed light on how this kind of alternative perspectives can be used to further the fields in research and practice. The research made for this conceptual paper has been thorough. However, the literature is huge, so...

...Thommie Burström; Timothy L. Wilson Purpose The premise of this paper is that tension exists among participants and parties engaged in projects. The uniqueness of development virtually assures this. The purpose of this paper is to propose that tension is a product of the precursors of complexity...

...-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze important parts of the contemporary development of project research and to outline plausible and desirable directions for the future. This is accomplished through a review of the “Scandinavian School of Project...

... environments. There are strong links with organisational improvisation here, which is increasingly becoming recognised as a contributor to effective delivery and learning within projects (Leybourne and Kennedy, 2015). The literature on ambidexterity is characterised by theoretical work and empirical...

...Joseph Kaggwa Ssegawa; Mark Muzinda Purpose – Result-based management (RBM) is common approach used in the development sector to initiate, plan and implement projects. However, to the knowledge of the authors the approach has hardly been used in delivering projects in other sectors, for example...

.... Findings – This research note conceptualizes “the temporary organization” as constantly changing across time and space; as shifting between two empirically driven modes: “goal seeking” and “goal oriented.” This is done through the shift of the trajectory of the particular “project” at hand. Practical...

... project where actors, who represent different organizational fields and respond to different institutional requirements with regards to time and timing, need to collaborate. Design/methodology/approach The paper centers on three critical incidents taken from a study of a large‐scale telecom project...

...Thommie Burström; Mattias Jacobsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the liaison role of project controllers in new product development (NPD) projects. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a case study of an industrial new product development project...

...Karlos Artto Purpose The purpose of this research note is to address theory building in the field of projects and temporary organizations. Design/methodology/approach This research note builds on commenting and deriving arguments from three main sources (the Transition paper, the End‐states...

...Mattias Jacobsson © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Future development Management research Perspectives Project management Projects Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Volume 6, Issue 1...

...Mattias Jacobsson; Anders Söderholm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how a different and partly new strategy is needed in order to make research on projects relevant and interesting to a wider scientific community, including organisation and management theory. Design...