Citation
(2011), "“Classics in Project Management Forthcoming project management events and links", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 4 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb.2011.35304caa.010
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
“Classics in Project Management Forthcoming project management events and links
Article Type: Calls for papers From: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Volume 4, Issue 3
Editors: Jonas Söderlund, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, NorwayJoana Geraldi, University College London, London, UK
This special issue invites scholars to reflect on groundbreaking works within the discipline/domain of project management, to discuss the contributions that shaped our field, to reflect about what we learned from these classics and how it can contribute to current and future research on project management.
Core idea
The SI is primarily responding to the lack of academic debate about the intellectual sources in the domain of project management. Consider, for instance strategic management as a contrast to project management. In the former, most scholars agree that Michael Porter’s contribution is profound, and that Ansoff’s work in the 1960s had a huge impact on the entire field of strategic management. In project management, things are very different. Here, scholars do not even know the key contributions, do not care about them, or just do not have the arena to discuss them. This special issue seeks to provide such an area and introduce the discussion about the classics that shaped the field of project management.
Process
We suggest a four-step process:
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Potential contributors send a brief abstract of their idea for book, article or theme that they believe is a classic in project management. The abstract should present a few arguments why it is a classic and why it is a project management contribution.
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The editors let the ones selected know that they are invited to proceed to the next stage.
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Submission of full paper.
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A round of review will follow and necessary revisions done before final submission of the paper.
More instructions will follow for those that pass the first selection gate.
Editors
The special issue is edited by Professor Jonas Söderlund and Dr Joana Geraldi. They both participate actively in the project management community, within the IRNOP, EURAM and PMI networks. Söderlund has published widely on the nature and roots of project management and is also one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook on Project Management (together with Peter Morris and Jeff Pinto).
Submission details
Submission of abstracts January 30, 2011, around 200 words.
Submission of full paper August 30, 2011, between 4,000 and 6,000 words.
Send the abstract to e-mail: j.geraldi@ucl.ac.uk
The special issue will follow the formatting guidelines from the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (Emerald).