Project Management Journal

?? Exciting News for #PM Scholars! The ?????? ???????????????? & ???????????????? ???????????? are now open! ?? The Project Management Institute Awards are now open for applications. With categories for professionals, projects, PMOs, Chapters, and academics, this is your chance to earn global recognition and showcase excellence in project management The six Research & Academic Awards cover research, teaching, literature, and students. To bring more consistency, simplicity, and impact, #PMI has reimagined the #PMIAwards—celebrating the inspiring people, innovative ideas, and outstanding teamwork that drive the world forward. Be seen. Be celebrated. Share or apply now! https://lnkd.in/ehsZNNM

Meet the #PMJ College fellows! ??? Watch the video interview with Dr Roksana Jahan Tumpa https://lnkd.in/dTrFevDR Dr. Roksana Jahan Tumpa is a Lecturer in Project Management within the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University, Sydney, Australia. She serves as both an educator and researcher, boasting a diverse array of peer-reviewed publications spanning project management, higher education, sustainability in construction projects and retention of women in construction. Throughout Roksana’s career, she has received several awards, including the Research Training Program (RTP) stipend Award, Walt Lipke Project Governance and Control Excellence Award, Student Voice Commendation Award, Best Paper Award, Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Winner Award, People's Choice Awards, and Best Presentation Awards. She has recently won a competitive industry grant on effective project governance and stakeholder engagement in achieving social value in projects. The PMJ College initiative At Project Management Journal (PMJ), we're dedicated to nurturing the next generation of scholarly excellence in project studies. We're thrilled to announce the launch of the new hashtag#PMJCollege, a two-year program developed to empower and retain talented and highly motivated doctoral students and postdocs at the early stages of their scholarly careers in project studies.

New paper published “?????????????????????????????? ?????????????? ???? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????? ?????????????? ???????????????????? ???? ?????????????? ???????????????????? ???? ????????????????????????” by Hong Xue, Ronggui Ding, Tao Sun, and Chao Ye The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/dJvRpMrt ???????????????? “Confronted with unexpected events, project resilience is significant for megaproject delivery success. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is used to explore the practical configuration conditions for project resilience in 81 megaprojects. The findings verify the complementary effect of social capital and dynamic capabilities on project resilience and reveal that the antecedent configuration conditions for proactive and reactive resilience differ. Our study broadens the literature on antecedents of project resilience and expands their complex relationship based on resource-based and dynamic-capability views. Moreover, it provides practical strategies to improve megaprojects’ proactive and reactive resilience.” #ProjectResilience #SocialCapital #Megaprojects #OrganizationalLearning #ResourceIntegration

Just wrapped up the online Editorial Board meeting of the Project Management Journal #PMJ! ?? It was a constructive discussion covering key topics for the community and the journal, such as paper awards, thoughtlets and editorials, journal performance, new calls for papers, the #PMJCollege, #PMI’s initiatives, and future activities. A huge thank you to all the participants joining from around the world—literally from dawn to dusk! Giorgio Locatelli Jonas Soderlund Cecil Chua Andrew Davies Joana Geraldi Jorg Sydow Kirsi Aaltonen Yongjian Ke Alexander Kock Florence Ling Sam MacAulay Shazia Nauman Jeff Pinto Shankar Sankaran Alfons van Marrewijk Jennifer Whyte Anna Wiewiora Daniel N. Kimberly Shinners Heather Ramsey Alessandro Paravano Project Management Institute | Sage

New #openaccess paper published “???????????????????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????????? ????????????????????: ?????????????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????????????” by Bent Flyvbjerg. The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/dwW2jqt9 ???????????????? “Heuristics are fast-and-frugal rules of thumb, used to simplify complex decisions. This article explores how heuristics may help improve project leadership. First, it identifies two schools of thought in scholarship about heuristics. Second, it explains why heuristics work, based on Occam’s razor. Third, it outlines five steps for teasing out project leaders’ tacit heuristics, with examples of how the steps were employed in leadership training at Oxford University. The five steps emphasize the role of Aristotelian phronesis in developing effective heuristics. Fourth, the article discusses heuristics that drove success at Pixar and how we may learn from these. Finally, areas for further research are identified. Readers, whether practitioners or scholars, are encouraged to develop and improve their own leadership heuristics and guidance is given for how to do this.” #Heuristics #TacitKnowledge #ProjectMasterbuilder #ProjectLeadership #ProjectManagement #Phronesis #PositiveLearning #DecisionHygiene

New paper published “?? ?????????????????? ?????? ???? ????????????????????: ?????? ???????????????? ???? ?????????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???? ?? ?????????????? ??????????????????” by Dicle Kortantamer The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/de_zB2yT ???????????????? “This article explores the practice of shaping the project portfolio direction through the lens of leadership. Focusing on a public setting, it uncovers three interrelated activities: developing ownership, networking, and de-personalizing. These activities can be accomplished through continuous balancing of substantive–symbolic and visible–subtle acts, institutional structures and their improvisations, and hierarchical and distributed leadership. The article contributes to (1) the project portfolio management literature by offering the concept of hybrid leadership and insights into the alignment of diverse stakeholder interests and worldviews, and (2) to the leadership literature by critiquing the leadership-as-practice movement and advancing explanations of the interplay between hierarchical and distributed leadership.” #Leadership #ProjectPortfolioManagement #InstitutionalAndOrganizationalContext

New paper published “?????? ??????????(????????????????) ???? ?????????????????????? ???? ????????????–?????????????? ????????????????????????: ?????? ?????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ?????? ???????????????? ?????????????? ????????????” by Yu Wang, Young Hoon KWAK, and Qingbin Cui The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/dkn3XeHG ???????????????? “This article draws on the new stakeholder theory to examine the role of flexibility in the decision process within capital-intensive public–private partnerships (PPPs). It highlights that successful PPPs rely on the project sponsor’s ability to effectively utilize market stakeholders’ critical resources (i.e., information and expertise) to maximize economic value creation, and to gain nonmarket stakeholders’ critical resources (i.e., support) through equitable social value identification and distribution. Drawing on two case studies in the national capital region of the United States, this article proposes a theoretical view to understand flexibility and stakeholder management for capital-intensive PPPs.” #Flexibility #NewStakeholderTheory #StakeholderManagement #ProjectProcurement #PublicPrivatePartnerships #CapitalIntensiveProject #Megaproject #CaseStudy

New #openaccess paper published “???????? ???? ?????????? ?????????????? ????????????????????? ???????????????????? ?? ?????? ???????????????????? ?????????????????? ?? ???????????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????” by Hao Dong, Nicholas Dacre, David Baxter, and Serkan Ceylan The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/eFpEXJGB ???????????????? “The concept of “Agile Project Management” has gained significant traction in various sectors, beyond its origins in software development. However, a coherent, universally accepted definition remains elusive, prompting this study to embark on a systematic exploration of agile practices and their implications in broader contexts. Employing a systematic literature review across three major academic databases on business and management studies in the past two decades, this research scrutinizes a final selection of 80 high-quality academic papers. The principal contribution of our research is the articulation of a nuanced definition of Agile Project Management, which demarcates it from traditional project management frameworks and those agile practices specific to software development. This study not only sheds light on the prevailing ambiguities in the understanding of Agile Project Management but also sets the stage for future research into the emerging organizational dynamics engendered by the adoption of agile practices.” #AgileProjectManagement #AgilePractices #SystematicLiteratureReview #FutureResearch

New #openaccess paper published “???????????????????? ?????????????? ???????????????? ??????????????????????: ???????????????? ???????? ?????????????? ?????????????????? ????????????????????????????” by Dr Paul Chapman. The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/erCffm7N ???????????????? “This study of Swedish road and rail project performance challenges understanding of project success and presents findings that run counter to the widely held position that transport infrastructure delivery performance and outcomes are persistently poor. Both road and rail investments proved economically profitable and were typically delivered to budget, evidence that questions theory claiming optimism bias and malicious agency dynamics such as strategic misrepresentation are endemic in decision-making during planning and persistently cause poor project performance. Summary findings on the performance of Swedish transport infrastructure projects are: 93% of road projects achieved intended benefits, 86% returned positive net present value, and cost overrun was typically 2.7%. Road projects typically achieve a net present value of 1.6 against an estimate of 0.6. 70% of rail projects achieved intended benefits, 63% returned positive net present value, and typical cost performance was -1.8% underrun. This contribution opens new avenues for research by scholars to explain this apparent success and why some projects, even in Sweden, fail.” #TransportInfrastructure #BenefitsRealization #EconomicProductivity #ExPostEvaluation

New #openaccess paper published “?????????? ???? ?????????????? ????????????????????: ?? ???????????? ?????? ???????????????? ????????????” by Joseph Harrison, Michael Lewis, Jens Roehrich, and Andrew Davies The paper is available here https://lnkd.in/euweWWJZ ???????????????? “Scale is commonly deployed as a descriptor in the extant project management literature without an associated discussion of what this means. Following a literature review and synthesis of 172 papers we identify three findings. First, most papers addressed the foundational concept of scale obliquely, suggesting a conceptual gap. Second, where scale is mentioned, it is mostly in association with large-scale projects and megaprojects. There are few papers discussing small- to medium-scale projects. Third, the limited categorization of scale is linked to limited discussion of its managerial implications. We then synthesize this research to establish a project scale framework and position future research avenues.” #Scale #Scaling #LargeScaleProjects #Megaprojects #LiteratureReview #ResearchAgenda