Coming to terms with project success: Current perspectives and future challenges

JK Pinto, K Davis, LA Ika, K Jugdev… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The need to periodically reassess the nature of project success is itself a recognition that
projects and the project society (Lundin et al., 2015) are in a constant state of evolution and …

Liminality in management and organization studies: Process, position and place

J Söderlund, E Borg - International Journal of Management …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores liminality, a concept receiving increased attention in management and
organization studies and gaining prominence because of its capacity to capture the …

The “re-meaning” of project success: Updating and recalibrating for a modern project management

LA Ika, JK Pinto - International Journal of Project Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Decades of research demonstrate that practitioners and scholars may have only a vague
notion of what project success is and thus settle for conflicting or inaccurate attributions of …

Temporary organizing: Promises, processes, problems

RM Bakker, RJ DeFillippi, A Schwab… - Organization …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Temporary organizing is introduced as process, form and perspective. Then key challenges
and opportunities in the study of temporary organizing are discussed, including …

Projectification in Western economies: A comparative study of Germany, Norway and Iceland

YG Schoper, A Wald, HT Ingason… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Projectification has become a buzzword. Although repeated claims of an increasing
projectification were often supported by illustrative, case-based evidence, a systematic and …

Project studies: What it is, where it is going

J Geraldi, J Söderlund - International journal of project management, 2018 - Elsevier
Project organising is a growing field of scholarly inquiry and management practice. In recent
years, two important developments have influenced this field:(1) the study and practice of …

Projects as temporary organizations: An agenda for further theorizing the interorganizational dimension

J Sydow, T Braun - International journal of project management, 2018 - Elsevier
Existing conceptualizations of projects as temporary organizations capture their
interorganizational facets only implicitly. We present theoretical ideas on how to further …

The project-oriented organization and its contribution to innovation

HG Gemünden, P Lehner, A Kock - International Journal of Project …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new conceptualization of the project-oriented organization. The
project-oriented organization is conceptualized as an entrepreneurial, future-and …

A Manifesto for project management research

G Locatelli, L Ika, N Drouin, R Müller… - European …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Project management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now a mature
disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practitioners and …

Applying institutional theories to managing megaprojects

C Biesenthal, S Clegg, A Mahalingam… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to Rodney Turner's initiative to develop a theory of project
management from practice. Organizational scholars studying strategy suggest that more …