International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 1 Issue 2

Collaborative academic/practitioner research in project management: Examples and applications

Derek H.T. Walker, Frank T. Anbari, Christophe Bredillet, Jonas Söderlund, Svetlana Cicmil, Janice Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to present a cost‐benefit interpretation of academic‐practitioner research by describing and analysing several recent relevant examples of…

Remembering with the help of personal notes in a project work context

Kaj U. Koskinen, Heli Aramo‐Immonen

Project team members frequently need to learn things already known in other projects, i.e. they need to acquire and assimilate organisational memory. The literature mentions…

The beauty and the beast – on the creativity/project management encounter

Rolf A. Lundin

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the creativity/project management (PM) encounter in TV production.

A study of out‐sourcing versus in‐sourcing tasks within a project value chain

David McKenna, Derek H.T. Walker

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a case of in‐sourcing a key resource verses using the standard mode of operation of utilizing an established out‐sourcing firm. The…

Research in applying the financial appraisal profile model to an information communication technology project within a professional association

Frank Lefley

The purpose of this paper is to report on research in applying the financial appraisal profile (FAP) model to an information communication technology project within a professional…

The Egyptian mortgage practice

Amr A.G. Hassanein, Mohamed M.G. El‐Barkouky

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the current mortgage system in Egypt.

Development of a method to improve the definition and alignment of intangible project outcomes and tangible project outputs

Kersti Nogeste, Derek H.T. Walker

The purpose of this paper is to describe a doctoral research study, including a summary of key literature review topics, the application of an action research methodology, key…

Earned value management insights using inferential statistics

Robert A. Marshall, Philippe Ruiz, Christophe N. Bredillet

The purpose of this paper is to summarise a successfully defended doctoral thesis. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of the scope, and main issues raised in…

Making Sense of Project Realities: Theory, Practice and the Pursuit of Performance

Stephen Simister

The Organizational Zoo: A Survival Guide to Work Place Behavior

Derek H.T. Walker

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