... to the phenomenon, objectifying complexity and the application of the body of work of complexity science. The second, “complexity of”, is a subjective approach, representing the lived experience of managers of what they termed “complexity”. Our work has developed in this latter vein. This trajectory has echoes...

.../value The contribution of this paper is to provide a clarification to the epistemology of complexity, to demonstrate complexity as a lived experience for project managers, and offer a common language for both practitioners and future empirical studies considering the individual or organisational...