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1.	Alderman, Neil, et al. (författare) Translation and Convergence in Projects : An Organizational Perspective on Project Success 2011 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : WILEY PERIODICALS, INC. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 42:5, s. 17-30 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract A range of theories (actor-network theory, multinodality, and sense making) are drawn together into a single model of project management processes in order to discuss project success and failure. It is argued that success and failure can be characterized in terms of a continuum between project convergence and divergence. The causes of divergence and convergence are discussed with reference to the above theories using four illustrative case studies.
2.	Andersson, Annika, 1961-, et al. (författare) Containing transaction costs in ERP implementation through identification of strategic learning projects 2007 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 38:2, s. 84-92 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems requires in-depth understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the receiving organization, thus implying specific learning costs. ERP projects delivered in form of contracted projects in a competitive market environment often ignore costs for competitive reasons (Linderoth & Lundqvist, 2004). However, these learning costs add to the overall transaction costs of a project. If not budgeted into the individual projects, these costs accumulate at the project portfolio level of project delivery organizations (sellers) and must be managed adequately. One way of minimizing learning costs at the portfolio level is to identify strategic learning projects, which accrue higher than planned (competitive) costs, but lower the costs of future projects and thereby the overall learning costs at the portfolio level. The present study investigated the practices of dealing with costs of learning projects at a Swedish ERP consultancy over at period of six months. The results show how to lower portfolio-level project costs in the longterm through identification of strategic learning projects, with expected budget overruns in the short-term. The study takes a transaction-costs-economic (TCE) perspective. A model shows the impact of short-term learning investments on the lowering of implementation risks in future projects. The model can be used by managers for understanding long-term profitability by exceeding time and budget objectives in the short term.
3.	Aubry, Monique, et al. (författare) Exploring PMOs through community of practice theory 2011 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Project Management Institute. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 52:5, s. 42-56 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores project management offices (PMOs) through community of practice theory. Preliminary results from a national health care case study are used to confirm the legitimacy of this approach. Today’s knowledgebased economy calls for mechanisms to share knowledge. The issue of making more with less is at stake in order to reuse good practices, support innovative practice, and prevent the reinvention of the wheel. Members of these communities are at the heart of the learning process. The originality of this research is that it sheds light on PMOs in a new theoretical perspective within the field of knowledge management.
4.	Aubry, Monique, et al. (författare) Identifying forces driving PMO changes 2010 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Wiley. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 41:4, s. 30-45 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Project management offices (PMOs) are dynamic organizational entities, frequently in transition from one charter and structure to the next. Within this article, we present empirical results on the nature and reasons for this transition. The article reports the second of a series of studies aimed at understanding the dynamics of PMOs. It addresses the mistaken paradigm that PMOs change because characteristics or functions in an existing PMO are wrong and require a new PMO charter or structure that can last for a long time. Instead of that, the article proposes a process view on the transformation of the PMO as being triggered by conditions within the external and/or internal context and producing outcomes in terms of impacts from the transformation. A global web-based questionnaire on PMO transitions in structure and charter yielded 184 responses. Factor analysis and correlation analyses revealed that the transition of a PMO from one configuration to the next is not a question of being right or wrong. PMOs in transition can rather be understood as a multilevel dynamic process anchored in a specific organizational context change. From the academic viewpoint, the authors believe that this research filled a large gap in the understanding of the reasons for and nature of PMOs to transition.
5.	Bengtson, Anna, 1968-, et al. (författare) Beyond Projet Closure : Why some business relationships recur in subsequent projects 2018 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 49:2, s. 89-104 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract While a project design provides several managerial advantages within the project life cycle, there are numerous challenges regarding its long-term effects. The aim of this article is to increase our knowledge on the continuity aspect of the project form of organizing, and especially the recurrence of project-based business relationships in subsequent projects. Focusing on the role of network relationships in leveraging between projects, we investigate the reasons for relationship recurrence. Based on a longitudinal case study of three construction projects, our results show that in addition to terminated and dormant relationships after project closure there are recurring relationships, which, unlike the others, do not need reactivation.
6.	Bengtsson, Marie, et al. (författare) Mapping the Road to Future Projects : Roadmapping as a Balancing and Transformation Process 2017 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 48:2, s. 39-54 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Based on a longitudinal case study in a large technology-based firm, this article shows how roadmapping can bring about an increased focus on explorative activity and a stronger future orientation in an organization. The case study shows how a radical technology vision, presented in the first roadmapping attempt, contributed to creating an awareness of the value of looking long into the future. This was, however, far from sufficient, and a second attempt with a stronger focus on collaboration and new knowledge generation was initiated to further the desired changeover. Interestingly, the case study points to the significance of visualizations as a means to support knowledge generation, as well as to protect exploration. More generally, we propose how roadmapping can be developed into a balancing and transformation tool associated with mapping as well as the creation of roads.
7.	Berggren, Christian, 1950-, et al. (författare) Lagomizing, organic integration, and systems emergency wards : Innovative practices in managing complex systems development projects 2008 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 39:S1, s. S111-S122 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In complex systems development, project management is a key factor for innovation, for bringing together system capabilities to actually working systems and taking them to the customer. The critical question then is: How can successful project management in this field be conceptualized, practiced, and understood? In the extant literature, there is a plethora of suggested tools for advanced planning and scheduling, for system decomposition and modularization, and for reducing interdependencies and avoiding errors. There is also a growing criticism of these “planning approaches,” suggesting various contingency and flexibility approaches, to reflect and adapt to complexity and change. This critique, however, tends to lack grounded suggestions for effective managerial practices and does not distinguish between general flexibility needs and specific project structures required to make complex systems development at all possible. This article centers on the development of large, complex systems with an empirical focus on the telecom industry. Key challenges here, it is argued, are to understand complexity, reduce complexity, and rapidly act on the consequences of complexity to ensure timely delivery of reliable and predictable systems to highly demanding customers. To cope with these challenges, a set of innovative practices has been developed within Ericsson, a world leader in mobile network systems. We focus on three such practices, which together represent examples of a “neo-realistic” approach to project management: (1) lagomizing, a top-down redefinition of project goals to reduce complexity and transform expectations; (2) organic integration, an articulation and visualization of a shared understanding of system capabilities; and (3) Systemakut, the Systems Emergency Ward, a real-time, high-visibility agora for managing integration, handling errors, and making swift decisions and in public. The study is based on a research methodology involving knowledge coproduction, where the team of authors represents both academic knowledge and practitioner experience of managing innovations in complex systems development projects.
8.	Berglund, Karin, et al. (författare) The worthy human being as prosuming subject : ‘Projectified selves’ in emancipatory project studies 2020 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 51:4, s. 367-377 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The projectified self is suggested in this article as a way to advance emancipatory project studies toward improved understandings of how individuals in contemporary neoliberal societies are urged to become self-controlling, self-improving, self-commercializing, life-compartmentalizing, and deadline driven. We propose (1) a developed theoretical foundation for studies of the projectified self, based on recent writings on enterprising selves, and (2) the notion of prosumption as a concept for how the worthiness of this projectified self is constructed in a simultaneous process of project-based production and consumption. This is discussed in relation to the on-going studies of social media entrepreneurs.
9.	Biedenbach, Thomas, 1976-, et al. (författare) The Open Secret of Values : The Roles of Values and Axiology in Project Research 2016 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 47:3, s. 139-155 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The purpose of this article is to explore the roles and potential benefits of axiology and value theory in project research. This is done through (1) an exploration of the essentials of axiology and value theory; (2) a review focused on how values have been used in project research; and (3) a reflection based on the historical–logical development of—and paradigmatic influences on—projects and their management. It is concluded that project research would benefit from a more encompassing philosophical treatment of axiology beyond merely acknowledging values as a thematic concept or as part of a project management methodology.
10.	Biedenbach, Thomas, 1976- (författare) The power of combinative capabilities : facilitating the outcome of frequent innovation in pharmaceutical R&D projects 2011 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 42:2, s. 63-80 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The purpose of this article is to investigate how organizations organize the early phases of research and development (R&D) projects in the pharmaceutical industry to achieve frequent innovation. The investigation was designed as a qualitative multiple case study. The analysis identified a standardized projectification of the preproject phases, leading to certain conflicts, such as a severe tension between dynamic, project, and multiproject capabilities, which hamper frequent innovation. Optimizing combinative capabilities to balance the capabilities triumvirate can provide powerful leverage and boost frequent innovation.
11.	Blomquist, Tomas, 1963-, et al. (författare) Project-as-practice : in search of project management research that matters 2010 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 41:1, s. 5-16 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Research on projects is not only an immaturefield of research, but it is also insubstantial whenit comes to understanding what occurs in projects.This article contributes to making projectmanagement research matter to the academic aswell as to the practitioner by developing a projectas-practice approach, in alignment with theongoing debate in social science research.The article outlines a framework and argues thatthere are two major challenges to the researcherand also suggests how these challenges can bemet. Underlying notions of the practice approachare outlined to ensure a development of theproject-as-practice approach that makes projectmanagement research matter!
12.	Chronéer, Diana, et al. (författare) A Holistic View on Learning in Project-Based Organizations 2015 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 46:3, s. 61-74 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Although researchers have over the years highlighted the importance of managing and supporting learning in project-based settings, it still seems to be problematic. New project management capabilities are needed, such as systems thinking, which will allow project-based organizations to better cope with learning in the organizations. This article explores how Swedish project-based organizations within an engineering and construction context manage and support learning activities today and discusses, with the support of process management literature, how an “organizational-wide project learning process” could improve the prerequisites for learning in project-based organizations. Our findings from three project-based organizations indicate a lack of a holistic perspective on project learning. A conceptual model is proposed, with the aim of validating and promoting process thinking by introducing, for example, new roles responsible for intra- and inter-project learning, respectively.
13.	Chronéer, Diana, et al. (författare) Managerial complexity of R&D projects in process industry : a Swedish study 2012 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 43:2, s. 21-36 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Process industries often have features that differ from other businesses, such as round-the-clock production and costly and specialized production processes—features that have not been dealt with in the project management literature. We highlight and identify the complexity of R&D projects in the Swedish process industry and its interrelated process development and product development activities based on results from interviews and a case study. The different competence areas in which a project manager must integrate and manage R&D projects is illustrated. We conclude that a project manager needs both production and product-related competence, including customers' processes
14.	Eriksson, Kent, et al. (författare) Projects in the Business Ecosystem : The Case of Short Sea Shipping and Logistics 2019 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 50:2, s. 195-209 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article develops a conceptual framework to analyze the governance of projects within a business ecosystem. The framework is applied to the case of a vessel delivery project in the short sea shipping business ecosystem, which is a cargo and logistics infrastructure service at sea. We develop a model that identifies contentious lock-ins among the workflows, and show how they can be resolved by governance that can increase performance of the sea logistics infrastructure. The model shows the interdependence of the short sea shipping business ecosystem and the vessel project, and it shows how performance is enhanced by their integration.
15.	Eriksson, Per-Erik, et al. (författare) The Role of Co-creation in Enhancing Explorative and Exploitative Learning in Project-Based Settings 2017 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 48:4, s. 22-38 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract We study how co-creation practices influence explorative and exploitative learning in five collaborative construction projects with partnering arrangements. Drawing on a longitudinal case study, our findings reveal two different types of explorative learning processes (i.e., adaptation and radical development) and three different exploitative learning processes (i.e., incremental development, knowledge sharing, and innovation diffusion). Furthermore, co-creation practices enhance adaptation, radical development, and incremental development, which are typical intra-project learning processes. Co-creation practices do not, however, enhance knowledge sharing and innovation diffusion across projects. These findings concur with previous insights that the temporary and one-off nature of projects makes inter-project learning problematic.
16.	Gaim, Medhanie, Dr, 1983-, et al. (författare) In Praise of Paradox Persistence : Evidence from the Sydney Opera House Project 2022 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 53:4, s. 397-415 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Organizational paradoxes persist. In their persistence, they resist closure; we demonstrate how, by using an exemplary project, that of the construction of the Sydney Opera House. By analyzing paradoxes encountered in the construction of a notable contemporary architectural project, we discuss how dialogical interactions enable options to emerge in the form of responses that were not previously evident. Engaging paradoxes dialogically requires accepting rather than denying contradictions, meaning that rather than resolving them in favor of one pole or the other, the contradictions remain in play. Monologic interactions—favoring dominant and singular voices, rather than producing consensus—repress dissent, leading to conflict, through suppressing paradox.
17.	Geraldi, Joana, et al. (författare) Stepping into the Future of Project Studies: Establishing the PMJ College for Early Career Researchers in Project Studies 2024 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 55:3, s. 227-231 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract With the support of the Project Management Institute (PMI), we are excited to launch the PMJ College, a global, cross-journal initiative to nurture future leading academics in project studies. The initiative is important now, as academia struggles to attract and retain talent, yet really needs academics. Society requires good projects and project management to survive and hence also a vibrant academic project ecology to extend knowledge and help project practice. The PMJ College aims to attract, retain, and help early career academics through a series of workshops and mentorship, fostering passionate and engaged scholarship. Applications are open, and its process is described in this editorial.
18.	Hällgren, Markus, 1977-, et al. (författare) Deviations, ambiguity and uncertainty in a project-intensive organization 2005 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Project Management Institute. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 36:3, s. 17-26 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article analyzes deviations in an automation project. The article develops a more holistic view of the project organization, focusing on how deviations are managed. The case study demonstrates that the tools and methods suggested in the literature are rarely used, and shows the importance of the context of the project in terms of gathering information and sharing knowledge that is required to manage deviations. Furthermore, the case shows that there are a number of deviation-management tactics that are applied to different deviations, dependent on whether they are uncertain and/or ambiguous.
19.	Ivory, Chris, et al. (författare) Can Project Management Learn Anything from Studies of Failure in Complex Systems? 2005 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 36:3, s. 5-16 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Studies of failure in complex technology systems point to the role of non-linear interactions, “emergence,” conflicting objectives, overly centralized management and “multi-nodality” in precipitating this failure. At the same time, studies of technology failure and safety in high-reliability organizations point to the benefits of what might be termed an “interventionist” approach to managing. Drawing on the insights of these studies, we explore three case studies of complex projects to show the importance of ongoing management “interventions” in preventing project failure. We conclude that “interventionism,” as a balance to overreliance on centralized project management systems, may be a fruitful approach to project management in the context of complex projects.
20.	Jacobsson, Mattias, 1976-, et al. (författare) Project Studies Beyond the Straitjacket : An Escape Artist's Manual 2020 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 51:4, s. 411-419 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article provides insights into ways in which project studies can be extended to make further impact on and contributions to other research domains, including more general management and organization studies. Inspired by literature on the phenomenology of science, publication practices, logics of research communities, and theory building, we analyze some examples of project studies that reach beyond the project domain. Based on this analysis, we present an "escape artist's manual" consisting of strategies and practices for how researchers could think about and design project studies to enable contributions beyond the home domain.
21.	Jacobsson, Mattias, 1976-, et al. (författare) Researching Projects and Theorizing Families of Temporary Organizations 2015 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 46:5, s. 9-18 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Following the contemporary development where most temporary, focused, and organized endeavors can be regarded as a project and studied as a temporary organization, we here ask how these concepts can be defined without hindering pluralism in understanding, development, and theorizing? Based on the notions of family resemblance – the idea that it is not a specific trait, but a variety of traits that are shared by some, but not all, members of a family – we propose a new dynamic framework that we believe is useful in order to advance studies of projects and temporary organizations towards more opportunities for rigorous theorizing.
22.	Johansson, Christian, et al. (författare) Knowledge Maturity as a Means to Support Decision Making During Product-Service Systems Development Projects in the Aerospace Sector 2011 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 1938-9507 .- 8756-9728. ; 42:2, s. 32-50 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Streamlining new product development forces companies to make decisions on preliminary information. This article considers this challenge within the context of project management in the aerospace sector and, in particular, for the development of product-service systems. The concept of knowledge maturity is explored as a means to provide practical decision support, which increases decision makers’ awareness of the knowledge base and supports cross-boundary discussions on the perceived maturity of available knowledge, thereby identifying and mitigating limitations. Requirements are elicited from previous research on knowledge maturity in the aerospace industry, and a knowledge maturity model is developed through five industry-based workshops.
23.	Kaulio, Matti A., Docent, 1965- (författare) A psychological contract perspective on project networks 2018 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 49:4, s. 81-88 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract A current challenge for project network scholars is to explain “how history matters”; in other words, how past experiences of collaboration between actors in a project network are transformed into an (informal) organizational format that is replicable in future collaborations. How are project networks formed in the first place? By examining a collaboration under formation between two organizations, this article proposes that project networks can be conceptualized as psychological contracts. In this formation process, critical incidents play a key role as they define “items” in the psychological contract; in project network terms, these items define routines for collaboration.
24.	Koch-ørvad, Nina, et al. (författare) Transforming Ecosystems: Facilitating Sustainable Innovations Through the Lineage of Exploratory Projects 2019 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 1938-9507 .- 8756-9728. ; 50:5, s. 602-616 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Radical innovations are essential for the sustainable transition of society; however, such innovations are struggling to establish a solid position in the ecosystem. Through a case study, the influence of the ecosystem on a radical, sustainable innovation is investigated. The study shows that the ecosystem causes bottleneck challenges for the innovation and that a lineage of exploratory projects is essential to transforming the ecosystem and thereby supporting the breakthrough of the innovation. A model for lineage ecosystem management is proposed, extending and contributing to the multiproject lineage management approach, with a particular focus on radical, sustainable innovations.
25.	Lenfle, Sylvain, et al. (författare) Exploratory Projects : From Strangeness to Theory 2019 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 50:5, s. 519-523 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
26.	Lennerfors, Thomas Taro, 1979-, et al. (författare) Virtues and vices in project management ethics : an empirical investigation of project managers and project management students 2018 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 49:3, s. 5-16 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
27.	Ljungblom, Mia, 1965-, et al. (författare) Virtues and Vices in Project Management Ethics : An Empirical Investigation of Project Managers and Project Management Students 2018 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 49:3, s. 5-16 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Project management is omnipresent, yet the research on project management ethics is still lacking. Recent research stresses the importance of developing virtue ethics for project managers. This study contributes to this research by offering an empirical exploration as to whether virtue ethics is used by project managers and project management students, and whether the use of it is fundamentally maximalistic or minimalistic. The study shows that virtue ethics is used by respondentsparticularly virtues of courage, fortitude, truthfulness, and moderation, and the avoidance of vices, such as weakness of will and cowardice. It also shows that virtue ethics is invoked both maximalistically and minimalistically.
28.	Lundin, Rolf A. (författare) Project Society : Paths and challenges 2016 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 47:4, s. 7-15 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In Project Society, organizing by projects plays a prominent role. This type of society is already here, but projectification continues to lead developments and transformations along a set of paths and trajectories. One way to describe this trend is to say that there is societal organizing in which various types of projects are becoming even more prevalent and diverse. The projectification trend seems to be the result of a variety of mechanisms at work, where a wide set of traditional institutions-ranging from laws to mindsets-is constantly challenged and reformed. Managing, along with the nature of work, are changing and adapting.
29.	Lundmark, Erik, et al. (författare) Linking individual-level knowledge sourcing to project-level contributions in large R&D-driven product-development projects 2014 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 45:6, s. 73-82 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper focuses on the link between individuals’ knowledge sourcing and their creative contributions, such as new ideas and solutions in R&D-driven product-devel- opment projects; creative contributions were both self and peer-assessed. The paper reveals that, for individuals, knowledge sources internal to the organization were generally regarded as more important than external knowledge sources. However, exter- nal parties such as customers, partners, and suppliers constitute the knowledge source that best predicted creative contributions at the project level. Informal external contacts were deemed the least important knowledge source by individuals; however, this was positively related to self-assessed creative contributions.The paper thus finds that there is a discrepancy between the knowledge sources deemed important by individuals and the sources that are associated with cre- ative contributions at the project level.
30.	Medina, Alicia, et al. (författare) What Are the Characteristics That Software Development Project Team Members Associate With a Good Project Manager? 2015 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 46:5, s. 81-93 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this study we investigate what software development project team members consider to be a good project manager. Previous research has been carried out using project manager self-assessments, other project stakeholder views, or recruiters' views. This qualitative study used the repertory grid technique to identify the characteristics that project team members associate with a good project manager. This technique has been adopted because of its strength in eliciting personal constructs. Among the 18 characteristics identified, the seven most relevant were classified and compared with previous findings, which reveals differences between the team members' and project managers' and other stakeholders' perceptions. Those findings complement the existing skill set and could be considered when recruiting and training project managers and staffing projects.
31.	Miterev, Maxim, et al. (författare) Mechanisms of isomorphism in project-based organizations 2017 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications Inc.. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 48, s. 9-24 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The paper challenges dominant assumption of goal rationality behind temporary organizations’ design in project-based organizations. While extant literature posits that organizations strive to select most appropriate project arrangements to fit the particular task requirements at hand, findings from an in-depth ethnography-inspired case study suggest that projects tend to imitate each other’s structures, strategies and practices with little consideration of the potential performance effects. The paper builds on the notion of the project as a temporary organization to conceptualize the project-based organization as an organizational field of temporary organizations. Thus the paper draws upon the new institutionalism in organizational analysis in order to discuss isomorphism pressures on temporary organizations within project-based organizations and to explicate these processes. The paper concludes with the discussion of a number of implications of the results for both theory and practice.
32.	Mubarak, Namra, et al. (författare) Lord of the Flies in project-based organizations: The Role of Passive Leadership on Creativity and Project Success 2023 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 54:5, s. 508-522 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study examines the role of passive project leadership in project success. The article deduces a theoretical model implying that passive project manager leadership behavior affects the success of information technology projects, directly and indirectly, via employees’ creativity. Self-regulation is proposed as a mitigating factor to minimize the destructive effects of passive leadership on creativity. The current study is based on a quantitative research design. A time lag design was used to collect data from 347 respondents working on information technology projects in Pakistan. SmartPLS was used for data analysis. The findings demonstrated that although passive leadership appears in flat organizations, it can have a negative impact on project success via creativity. Additionally, if the person is self-regulatory, it will not alter the results. The study added to the project management body of knowledge by confirming that a strong leadership role, instead of a passive one, is essential to boosting the creativity of project personnel. A passive leader remains inactive during situations where a strong leader is needed; however, self-regulation on the part of employees proved insufficient to propel a project toward success.
33.	Müller, Ralf, 1957-, et al. (författare) Project Portfolio Control and Portfolio Management Performance in Different Contexts 2008 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 39:3, s. 28-42 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article investigates the nature and relationship of project portfolio control techniques and portfolio management performance, and how this relationship is moderated by situational idiosyncrasies of internal and external dynamics, industries, governance types, and geographic location. A worldwide questionnaire with 242 responses was used, of which 136 high-performing responses were filtered out for quantitative analysis of best practices. Three portfolio control factors were identified: portfolio selection, portfolio reporting, and decisionmaking style. Two measures for portfolio management performance were identified: achievement of desired portfolio results and achievement of project and program purpose. The results indicate that different portfolio control mechanisms are associated with different performance measures. A contingency model was developed, including moderating effects by contextual variables.
34.	Packendorff, Johann, 1967-, et al. (författare) Project Leadership in Becoming : A Process Study of an Organizational Change Project 2014 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 45:3, s. 5-20 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Drawing on the current research in general leadership, we propose that a process ontology is relevant and rewarding for project leadership studies. We argue that project leadership can be studied as the ongoing social production of direction through the construction of actors' space of action, involving continuous construction and reconstruction of (1) past project activities and events; (2) positions and areas of responsibility; (3) discarded, ongoing, and future issues; and (4) intensity, rhythm, and pace. Through an ethnographic case study of an organizational change project, we show how space of action and hence the project direction are in constant flux and becoming.
35.	Pemsel, Sofia, et al. (författare) Creating knowledge of end users' requirements: the interface between firm and project 2010 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - Hoboken, NJ : SAGE Publications. - 1938-9507 .- 8756-9728. ; 41:4, s. 122-130 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In order to stay competitive and meet the changing needs of the market, construction firms must develop efficient means of gathering and using knowledge of end-users requirements. This study uses two case studies, to explore the knowledge creation of end-users requirements in project driven firms. The focus of the study is the interface between firm and project. The interface is analyzed from both an autopoietic and cognitive, organizational and societal view. The findings implicates the importance of understanding (a) what kinds of knowledge that is dominated in the different organizations (b) what could be expected in the exchange of data, (c) what action needs to be taken in order to create value of it. The study suggests that considering the organization as an autopoietic system could be useful to understand the organizations responses to a dynamic environment.
36.	Pemsel, Sofia, et al. (författare) Knowledge Entrainment in Large-Scale Transformation Projects: The Evidence-Based Strategy and the Innovation-Based Strategy 2024 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Prior research has indicated that knowledge integration is essential for succeeding with large-scale transformation (LST) projects. However, research has largely ignored the processual properties of knowledge integration. This article embarks on the notion of knowledge entrainment and demonstrates the criticality of the processual nature of knowledge integration. Through a comparative qualitative case study of two LST projects in the healthcare sector, two knowledge entrainment strategies were identified (the evidence-based strategy and the innovation-based strategy). Data analysis uncovered triggers, practices, and outcomes of the two knowledge entrainment strategies. Additionally, the central role of temporary project management offices (PMOs) for arranging knowledge entrainment within the LST projects is demonstrated.
37.	Rylander Eklund, Anna, et al. (författare) The Duality of Design(ing) Successful Projects 2020 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 51:1, s. 11-23 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Project success is an issue of intense interest to both scholars and project management practitioners, and yet its theoretical elaboration continues to be somewhat under-developed. Responding to this gap between theory and practice, we tease out the dynamics of the design(ing) duality in relation to project management. Our argument is informed by the contrasting management theories of Taylor (design) and Follett (designing), and it is illustrated by drawing on two different experiences of a large Initial Training Network project funded by the European Commission. We suggest that a comprehensive appreciation of project success requires an interweaving of the substantive and processual understandings reflected in the design(ing) duality.
38.	Sergi, Viviane, et al. (författare) Process Studies of Project Organizing 2020 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 51:1, s. 3-10 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
39.	Shao, Jingting, et al. (författare) Measuring program success 2012 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 43:1, s. 37-49 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Growth in the use of programs has led to a requirement of understanding what constitutes program success. A measurement construct for program success, which comprises four dimensions—delivery capability, organizational capability, marketing capability, and innovative capability—was developed based on 172 responses to a web-based questionnaire to program managers. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and canonical correlation analysis were applied to test for the relationship between program success and program context. Results showed that the measurement construct for program success was stable over different types of program contexts. It provides a tool for further investigation into program success assessment.
40.	South, Andrew, et al. (författare) How Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership Projects Change Over Project Development Phases 2018 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 49:4, s. 62-80 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This research adds to work on the development of infrastructure public-private partnership projects (P3s), which is a rapidly growing mode of infrastructure service delivery. Infrastructure P3 projects typically have a long life cycle, but little is understood about the nature of the changes that such a project goes through over the phases of its life cycle. This article contributes to project research as it studies the changes that an infrastructure P3 project goes through over its life cycle and suggests how those changes can be governed over the life cycle of the project. The research is empirically informed from an in-depth case study of a highway transportation P3 in California over a 20-year period. This research shows that the developmental phases of P3s differ by dramatic changes in the composition of stakeholder networks and the use of institutional logic. First, employing social network analysis (SNA), we map the network of stakeholders in the P3 case and show how the stakeholder network changes over four phases. Second, we identify how different stakeholders use formal and informal institutional logic in their interactions, and demonstrate that the dominant institutional logic employed in the P3 changes from informal to formal over the P3's life cycle. We further show how this change in the P3's dominant institutional logic corresponds to the dynamism in the stakeholder network. We propose that infrastructure P3s should be analyzed and governed as the dynamic arrangements they areconstellations of stakeholders that change individually and undergo change collectively over a long life cycle of different phases.
41.	Styhre, Alexander, 1971 (författare) Thinly and Thickly Capitalized Projects: Theorizing the Role of the Finance Markets and Capital Supply in Project Management Studies 2020 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 51:4, s. 378-388 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In the contemporary economy, finance industry interests and finance theory propositions increasingly determine investment behavior. Project management scholars access conceptual frameworks and methods that shed light on day-to-day project management practices, but such practices are themselves shaped by the supply and cost of finance capital. Consequently, project management scholarship would benefit from a closer look at finance industry practices to better understand how, for example, calculations and risk assessments matter for day-to-day project management practices. In order to theorize the project organization form, finance theory and its key concepts of risk and uncertainty need to be recognized and subject to scholarly inquiry. This article presents two cases of project work, wherein the former (life science ventures) is thinly capitalized on the basis of uncertainty in the development activities, whereas the latter case (housing production) is thickly capitalized, which indicates that subsidies, insurances, and exemptions increase investment appetite. In either case, economic and social welfare are not maximized, which calls for project management scholars to recognize the role of finance industry practices when allocating finance capital to various projects.
42.	Sundqvist, Erik (författare) The Role of Project Managers as Improvement Agents In Project-Based Organizations 2019 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 50:3, s. 376-390 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract We propose that the project manager is implicitly expected to participate in and contribute to continuous improvement in Project-Based Organizations.This paper explores how the project management literature treats the project manager in relation to improving overall PBO performance. The results, supported by case study insights, indicate implicit expectations of the project manager to contribute to organization-level PBO improvement. We argue that, if organization-level improvement should be part of project management practice in PBOs, as promoted in project management literature, the role of improvement agent needs to be formalized for the project manager.
43.	Söderlund, Jonas, et al. (författare) New Editors and a New Editor-in-Chief: Making the Manifesto a Reality 2024 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
44.	Söderlund, Jonas (författare) Seven Insights Into Becoming an Engaged Project Scholar 2023 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
45.	Troje, Daniella (författare) Social Sustainability in Projects : Using Social Procurement to Create Employment in the Swedish Construction Sector 2023 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 54:1, s. 52-69 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Social procurement can increase social sustainability by creating employment for marginalized people. This article investigates how project organizations perceive and handle the resources from and relationships with their main contractors and clients when implementing social procurement. Analyzing 20 semistructured interviews with actors working in Swedish construction projects, the findings show how resources are lacking and relationships are tenuous, but also that the innovative capacity of actors at the project level, in a bottom-up fashion, can overcome some of these issues. This article shows how sustainability initiatives are difficult to implement in projects, and what strategies actors use to cope.
46.	Turner, Rodney J, et al. (författare) The Project Manager's Leadership Style as a Success Factor on Projects : a Literature Review 2005 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : Project Management Institute. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 36:2, s. 49-61 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The literature on general management research often identifies leadership style as a critical success factor impacting individual and organizational performance. In this paper, commissioned by the Project Management Institute, the authors survey the recent literature on project management to determine whether project management researchers consider leadership style a critical success factor when managing projects and whether they believe leadership style impacts project outcome. This paper opens by outlining the purpose of this study and then describing the general management literature on leadership styles and competence in relation to four elements: 20th century leadership theory; team behavior; managerial behavior; and leadership competence. It then looks at the literature on project management and discusses the research on the relationship between a project manager's leadership style and competence and project outcome and success. It then identifies and explains six points concerning the project manager leadership style and competence that researchers have most frequently explored. The paper concludes by detailing this review's findings and by suggesting ideas on this topic that researchers could further explore. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR Copyright of Project Management Journal is the property of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. / Education and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract.
47.	Blomquist, Tomas, et al. (författare) Practices, Roles, and Responsibilities of Middle Managers in Program and Portfolio Management 2006 Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - 8756-9728. ; 37:1, s. 52-66 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Practices for program and portfolio management, together with the associated roles and responsibilities of middle managers, were investigated. The results of the multi-method study show that high-performing organizations apply dedicated portfolio management processes and tools, plus use the associated roles of middle managers, to address the requirements stemming from the complexity of the organization's environment and the types of projects executed. This is not the case in low-performing organizations. The study takes a transaction costs economics perspective and develops a contingency model for program/portfolio management roles of middle managers. Managerial and theoretical implications are also discussed. This paper summarizes the highlights of research findings that can be found in the full report published by the Project Management Institute (PMI) (Blomquist & Müller, 2006).

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