International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 12 Issue 1

Exploring processual and critical avenues at the crossroad of entrepreneurship and project management

Olivier Germain, Monique Aubry

Entrepreneurship and project management relationships: So far so good? Dialogic conversation and Luhmannian perspective

Cécile Fonrouge, Christophe Bredillet, Charles Fouché

Both project investments and entrepreneurial ventures are considered powerful catalysts of economic prosperity and social progress. But these ventures and investments come with…

Process perspectives on entrepreneurship and projects

Arvi Kuura, Rolf A. Lundin

The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on entrepreneurship and projects by applying process perspectives on these two fields with the ambition to shed light on how…

Patterns of project-based organizing in new venture creation: Projectification of an entrepreneurial ecosystem

Carolin Auschra, Timo Braun, Thomas Schmidt, Jörg Sydow

The creation of a new venture is at the heart of entrepreneurship and shares parallels with project-based organizing: embedded in an institutional context, founders have to…

Programming for holistic value creation: collaboration, coordination and perception

Markus Laursen, Catherine P. Killen

The purpose of this paper is to holistically explore value creation approaches in a program of cultural projects to inform the practices of project/program management in both…

The vanishing point? – notes on conceptual colonization and epistemological emptying

Alf Rehn

“Entrepreneurship” and “projects” both represent concepts with somewhat hazy boundaries. Interestingly, they also both represent fields of study in which academics representing…

The (enlightened) perspective of an anthropologist on entrepreneurship and the project: An interview with Jean-Pierre Boutinet

Olivier Germain, Monique Aubry, Marc Bonnemains

A good man is hard to find: project management, entrepreneurship and serendipity

William B. Gartner

The purpose of this paper commentary is to explore the intersection of project management and entrepreneurship through a poetic exploration of Flannery O’Connor’s short story: “A…

Lifecycle view of managing different changes in projects

Lauri Vuorinen, Miia Maarit Martinsuo

A project contractor can promote the success of a delivery project by planning the project well and following a project management methodology (PMM). However, various changes…

Delivering new nuclear projects: a megaprojects perspective

Fiona Caroline Saunders, Ellen A. Townsend

The purpose of this paper is to make recommendations for policy makers, promotors and project managers on how to structure and deliver new nuclear build programmes, by drawing on…

Determinants of bank loan spread in project finance

Wouter Thierie, Lieven De Moor

The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of the pricing decisions of banks for project finance (PF) loans and the main drivers affecting the cost of debt in…

Project risk management practices: the organizational maturity influence

José Crispim, Luiz Henrique Silva, Nazaré Rego

The purpose of this paper is to identify patterns of project risk management (PRM) practices’ adoption, and provides empirical evidence concerning the importance (and key…

Marketing for the project: project marketing by the contractor

John Rodney Turner, Laurence Lecoeuvre, Shankar Sankaran, Michael Er

The purpose of this paper is to identify the marketing practices adopted by contractors in project-based industries to win new business and maintain relationships with existing…

Governance and Governmentality for Projects: Enablers, Practices, and Consequences

Kam Jugdev