International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 13 Issue 3

Effect of using project management tools and techniques on SMEs performance in developing country context

Seydou Sane

The purpose of this paper is to highlight, through a theoretical and empirical analysis, the expected effects of the use of tools and techniques of project management on the…

Asymmetry of stakeholders’ perceptions as an obstacle for collaboration in inter-organizational projects: The case of medicine traceability projects

Alejandro Romero-Torres

The purpose of this paper is to overlook influential factors associated with the collaboration itself, and to explore the effect of these factors on inter-organizational…

Exploring factors behind project scope creep – stakeholders’ perspective

Mian Ajmal, Mehmood Khan, Hanan Al-Yafei

The purpose of this paper is to explore the different views of major project stakeholders about the factors that contribute to poor project scope leading to project scope creep.

A fine balance? Unwrapping the coexistence of projects and non-projects in the core of the organization

Torstein Nesheim

The purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of projects in permanent organizations. Previous research has captured organizational contexts where either a project…

Making sense of an innovation in a safety-critical megaproject

Kirsi Aaltonen, Nadezhda Gotcheva, Jaakko Kujala, Karlos Artto

In megaprojects, changes in scope and organization may occur continuously. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how actors in a project network make sense of a…

Comparison of research and industry views on project managers’ competencies

Sina Moradi, Kalle Kähkönen, Kirsi Aaltonen

The success of projects clearly relies on project management personnel and particularly on project managers. Their performance and capacities are based on the achieved…

Understanding project evaluation – a review and reconceptualization

Omid Haass, Gustavo Guzman

The purpose of this paper is to understand the underlying logics applied by different project evaluation approaches and to propose an alternative research agenda.

Project management resources and outcomes: a confirmatory factor analysis

David Perkins, Gita Mathur, Kam Jugdev

The purpose of this paper is to draw on the resource-based view of the firm from strategic management and apply it to a study of competitive advantage in the project management…

Exploring the relationship between leadership and followership of Chinese project managers

Haoran Li, Zhenzhi Zhao, Ralf Müller, Jingting Shao

Followership is the free will recognition of leadership in the commitment toward realization of the collectively adopted organization vision and culture. The purpose of this paper…

Agro-food projects: analysis of procedures within digital revolution

Juan Maria Sagarna Garcia, David Pereira Jerez

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights about the approaches and techniques of professionals that nowadays are designing Digital Products and Services (DPS) in the…