International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 10 Issue 3

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Examining project learning, project management competencies, and project efficiency in project-based firms (PBFs)

Wise Mainga

The purpose of this paper is to use survey data to rank the relative importance of perceived factors that inhibit the transfer of knowledge across projects and examine the…

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Managing competence and learning in knowledge-intensive, project-intensive organizations: A case study of a public organization

Rolf Medina, Alicia Medina

Competence management should no longer be considered as disconnected activities with few relationships with the organizational goals. It is the viewpoint that competence…

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The organization design perspective on the project-based organization: a structured review

Maxim Miterev, J. Rodney Turner, Mauro Mancini

The purpose of this paper is to use an organizational design perspective to determine the scope of the state-of-the art of research into project-based organizations.

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Contractual governance as a source of institutionalised waste in construction: A review, implications, and road map for future research directions

Saad Sarhan, Christine Pasquire, Emmanuel Manu, Andrew King

The construction industry has been subject to substantial criticism for its short-term “hit-and-run” relationships which are focussed on win-lose situations. Despite the wide…

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Enriching project organizations with formal change agents: Health promotion projects at the workplace

Pernille Eskerod, Just Bendix Justesen, Gisela Sjøgaard

Project success requires effective and efficient cooperation between the project organization and the permanent organization in which the project takes place. The purpose of this…

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The lived experience of project leadership in a loosely coupled transient context

Christopher Cullen, Brian Leavy

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lived experience of the project leader and generate additional insight into the relationship between the social and technical…

Defining project efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy

Youcef J.-T. Zidane, Nils O.E. Olsson

This paper studies how the concepts of efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy are used in project management literature. The concepts relate to the degree of success or failure of…

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Sustainable infrastructure development challenges through PPP procurement process: Indian perspective

Nilesh Agarchand, Boeing Laishram

Infrastructure development through public-private partnership (PPP) route in India has exhibited concerns about not promoting progress toward sustainable development goals…

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Cover of International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

ISSN:

1753-8378

Online date, start – end:

2008

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Nathalie Drouin