International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 8 Issue 4

Unspread wings: Why cultural projects don’t provide refreshing ideas for project management although they could?

The purpose of this paper is to show the potential of cultural projects which could become a source of inspiration in terms of refreshing and adjusting traditional project…

Managing competing logics through situational irony

The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on how actors manage competing logics in an organizational field. The authors do so by introducing the concept of…

Creativity and management control – the diversity of festival budgets

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the budget, when split into a network of projects, can act as a management tool to balance control with creativity.

Organizing cultural projects through legitimising as cultural entrepreneurship

This paper is a study of creating organization in the case of cultural projects; cultural entrepreneurship. This includes taking advantage of opportunities and using ones social…

From applicant to designated European Capital of Culture

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the management challenges related to the transition from the application phase to the delivery phase of the project of being a European…

Developing complex-project capability through dynamic organizational learning

The purpose of this paper is to extend the learning boundaries of traditional project capability, which follows the linear planning paradigm, in order to include non-linear…

Redefining governance: from confusion to certainty and clarity

The purpose of this paper is to resolve and remove from the governance arena in general and the project arena in particular, conflict which occurs when parties do not realise they…

Communication, dialogue and project management

Project communication is overwhelmingly viewed as the proper and timely delivery of pertinent project information. The view of communication in this way misses the constitutive…

Relevance: a framework to address preconceptions that limit perceptions of what is relevant

Erroneous perceptions of relevance contribute to business projects not being successful. Although the importance of relevance is recognized in the project management literature…

Development of an assessment tool for team integration in alliance projects

The purpose of this paper is to report on a doctoral thesis that developed an Alliance Team Integration Performance Index (ATIPI), an assessment tool for measuring team…

Journey towards best practices in acting on early warning signs in complex projects within a Russian context

– The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary report and reflect on a recently passed PhD thesis (Sharaborova, 2014b) related to project management topics.

Exercising Agency Decision Making and Project Initiation

Editorial

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