International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 3 Issue 1

Projects – real, virtual or what?

At the heart of this paper is the question of how to describe the ongoing changes of project management (PM) and how to cultivate the understating of projects. In line with the…

Project management artefacts and the emotions they evoke

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the variety of affective emotions that are evoked in extant project management (PM) practitioners by various PM artefacts.

The craft of project shaping

This paper aims to look closely at the actuality of project formation to investigate the performance of project shaping – those acts performed by individuals to make that form of…

Project management in the international development industry: The project coordinator's perspective

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the empirical relationship between project management (PM) efforts (the extent to which national project coordinators (NPCs) – the project…

Groupthink in temporary organizations

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of groupthink in temporary organizations. Only anecdotally has the literature touched upon how the temporary…

Understanding mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from a program management perspective

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the practice of program management can be used to manage strategically‐oriented initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions (M&As)…

Research and the future of project management

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on some of the fundamental project management (PM) research issues facing PM as a discipline. It aims to pose fundamental questions about…

The emergent realities of project praxis in socially complex project environments

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of a completed doctoral action research thesis that moved beyond focussing on the instrumentality of project actuality to…

Dynamic capability through project portfolio management in service and manufacturing industries

The purpose of this paper is to summarise a recent doctoral thesis on the relationship between project portfolio management (PPM) and competitive advantage in service and…

Making Essential Choices with Scant Information: Front‐end Decision Making in Major Projects

Project Governance

Forthcoming project management events and links

About this issue – perceptions of project management in traditionally non-PM industry sectors

Measuring the impact of research