International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 7 Issue 1

Integrating service practice into project management: a matter of “do or die”?

Thommie Allan Burström, Mattias Jacobsson, Timothy L. Wilson

– The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze service management practices within a project management context.

Organization development through ad hoc problem solving: A case of knowledge transfer capacity development in an ERP implementation project

Davar Rezania, Noufou Ouedraogo

The purpose of this research is to study the ad hoc problem of developing capabilities for knowledge transfer between various constituencies of an enterprise resource planning…

A strategy-based method of assessing information technology investments

Marisa Analia Sánchez, Antonio Carlos Gastaud Maçada, Marcela del Valle Sagardoy

The purpose of the paper is to present a theoretical framework and the preliminary results of a research on how to assess information technology (IT) investments so as to deliver…

Standing on the shoulders of strategic management giants to advance organizational project management

Nathalie Drouin, Kam Jugdev

The purpose of this paper is to examine relevant issues within the strategic management domain related to concepts and terms used within the resource-based view and dynamic…

Effective multicultural project management: the role of human interdependence

Olivier Mesly, Jean-Pierre Lévy-Mangin, Normand Bourgault, Veronique Nabelsi

– The purpose of this paper is to look at human interdependence and its significance in project management.

Managing organizational challenges in global projects

Wenche Aarseth, Asbjørn Rolstadås, Bjorn Andersen

The purpose of this paper is to complement the research that has been done in global projects so far and has two objectives: to study organizational challenges in global projects…

Uncertainty management of projects from the owners' perspective, with main focus on managing delivered functionality

Hans Petter Krane, Nils O.E. Olsson

This paper aims to report on the work on a doctoral thesis studying uncertainty management of projects. The thesis was in particular studying uncertainty regarding the…

IT project management capabilities enhancement impacts of contingent employment policy in Hong Kong organisations

Chui-Ha Ng, Derek H.T. Walker, Ginger Levin

This paper aims to present a summary of findings of a doctoral thesis on the impacts of contingent employment on IT project management (PM) practices in three large representative…

Reconstructing Project Management

Rolf Lundin

Editorial

Derek H.T. Walker