International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 15 Issue 1

Organizational agility: do agile project management and networking capability require market orientation?

Adler Haymans Manurung, Randy Kurniawan

This study aims to examine the joint impact of networking capability and agile project management on organizational agility of telecommunication technology providers' in…

A model to guide the effective use of a business case for IT projects

Frank David Einhorn, Jack Meredith, Carl Marnewick

The paper responds to calls in recent research for a model that shows how the business case should be used throughout the project's lifetime to achieve sound governance and…

An investigation of sponsor attributes on six megaproject cases

Willem Louw, Herman Steyn, Jan Wium, Wim Gevers

Executive sponsors play a significant role in the success of megaprojects which, in turn, affect national economies and millions of people. However, the literature on the…

Managing projects as a mode of temporal ordering. Performative organising of time and temporality in projects

Yannick Kalff

Project studies analyse either managing practices or the temporal nature of project management, which leaves open a research gap: the temporality of managing practice. The paper…

Learning from interorganizational projects

Rehab Iftikhar, Tuomas Ahola, Aurangzeab Butt

The purpose of this study is to consolidate the existing research on interorganizational projects and to explore how organizations learn by closely examining multilevel learning…

Control of project data and team satisfaction as results of PMO effort in new product development projects

Sanderson César Macêdo Barbalho, Gladston Luiz Silva

This paper aims to explore how new product development (NPD)-based project management offices (PMOs) work, their drivers to deliver performance and their project success impact.

The mediation role of the PMO in the transfer of knowledge between projects – a case study of five PMOs

Brighton Tshuma, Herman Steyn, Cornelis Cristo van Waveren

This article describes advances in the study of knowledge transfer (KT) in project-based organizations (PBOs). Project management offices (PMOs) have both a moderation role and a…

The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects

Valdemilson de Assis Alves de Araujo, Isabel Cristina Scafuto, Fernando Ribeiro Serra, Leonardo Vils, Flavio Bizarrias

This study aimed to investigate the effects of internal stickiness (IS) on the success of projects through the perception of managers involved in projects.

Reach for the sky: analysis of behavioral competencies linked to project success

Suzana Sampaio, Qiong Wu, Kathryn Cormican, João Varajão

The issue of project managers’ competencies has gained much traction in practice and more recently in academic debate. However, they have become analogous to extensive wish lists…

Internal projects as strategic tools: an organisation-level perspective and a research agenda

Torbjørn Bjorvatn

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to describe and explain how organisations use internal projects to implement organisation-level strategy objectives.