Projects are inherently processual, and many project management scholars have begun to
mobilize a process view, albeit sometimes implicitly. This methodological article presents …

What is a special issue? It might sound almost too obvious to ask this question. Everybody
knows that a special issue is a collection of articles all connected by a single theme. The …

This paper puts forth the somewhat controversial position that what is needed to improve
project management in practice is not more research on what should be done or the …

Project management as a discipline possesses a rich body of literature characterized by
early determinism and later expansion to broader contexts aided by paradigmatic, thematic …

In this special issue, we encouraged project scholars to be bold and construct their voices.
We now reflect on the results, which include the bright spots in four areas: project organizing …

Drawing on the current research in general leadership, we propose that a process ontology
is relevant and rewarding for project leadership studies. We argue that project leadership …

A unified theory of the management of projects does not exist. Projects are context-specific
and located in open-systems. While this is now widely acknowledged, research …

Theories on project management are dominated by a perspective on singular projects,
treating the unit of analysis as a lonely phenomenon. Anchored in a comparative case study …

Projects have become omnipresent not only in the economy but also in our society and our
lives. Projects organize and shape our actions at work, in our professional profiles and …

The specificity of project management in different contexts and industries is recognized, but
little empirical research encompasses a sufficiently broad range of contexts and project …