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Call for papers: Circular economy in project management 征文：项目管理中的循环经济

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102797

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Shaping the dual transition: Stakeholder dynamics in digital twin-using net-zero projects 塑造双重转型：数字孪生使用净零项目中的利益相关者动态

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102798

Eleni Papadonikolaki

Digital Twins are becoming increasingly important in Net Zero projects, fostering a dual sustainability and digitalisation transition. Project stakeholders are key in this dual transition as they interact and co-create within the socio-technical system. Stakeholder dynamics are especially critical in construction sector, a major contributor to global carbon emissions. This study uses a multi-method approach to examine how stakeholder dynamics emerge to enable joint digitalisation and decarbonisation efforts. The study moves beyond stakeholder analysis and integrates theories from the multi-level perspective of transitions. The findings highlight the prominent role of key stakeholders such as clients/owners, government and regulators in supporting the dual transition through competitive, hybridised and symbiotic dynamics with variable disruption potential. Theoretically, the study bridges project and transitions studies by illustrating how digital twins can be strategically deployed to drive decarbonisation and support sustainability by projects. Apart from deepening the understanding of stakeholder dynamics in the dual transition the study also provides actionable insights for practitioners and policymakers in navigating emerging stakeholder constellations to enable socio-technical system change.

数字孪生在净零项目中变得越来越重要，促进了可持续性和数字化的双重转型。项目利益相关者是这种双重转变的关键，因为他们在社会技术系统中相互作用和共同创造。作为全球碳排放的主要贡献者，建筑行业的利益相关者动态尤为重要。本研究使用多方法方法来研究利益相关者动态如何出现，以实现联合数字化和脱碳努力。本研究超越了利益相关者分析，从转型的多层次视角整合理论。研究结果强调了客户/所有者、政府和监管机构等关键利益相关者在通过具有可变破坏潜力的竞争、混合和共生动态来支持双重转型方面的重要作用。从理论上讲，该研究通过说明如何战略性地部署数字双胞胎来推动脱碳和支持项目的可持续性，从而将项目和转型研究联系起来。除了加深对双重转型中利益相关者动态的理解外，该研究还为从业者和政策制定者提供了可操作的见解，帮助他们驾驭新兴的利益相关者星座，以实现社会技术系统变革。

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From ethical tensions to value co-creation in project networks: Exploring the mediating role of moral reflexivity and the moderating role of network embeddedness 项目网络中从伦理紧张到价值共同创造：探讨道德反身性的中介作用和网络嵌入性的调节作用

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102799

Nian Liu, Lianying Zhang

Value co-creation in project networks involves the coordination and cooperation among multiple organizations. Due to differences in cultural backgrounds and strategic objectives among organizations, organizational interest goals often conflict with the ethical expectations of other participants. Previous research often focused on the impacts of task and role conflicts under instrumental goal orientation. It remains unclear how inconsistency between organizational interest goals and external ethical expectations influences value co-creation among organizations. This study innovatively proposes the mediating mechanism of organizational moral reflexivity. External stakeholders' expectations drive organizations to recognize the negative impacts of self-interested behaviors. Through critical learning and self-reflection, organizational members actively engage in inter-organizational collaboration within the project network. In addition, the study examined the moderating effect of network embeddedness on moral reflexivity. We collected 281 survey responses through a three-wave, two-month time-lagged design for empirical model validation. The findings indicate that inconsistency between organizational interest goals and external ethical expectations has a significant negative impact on value co-creation. With stronger network embeddedness, organizations are more inclined to exhibit moral reflexivity in the face of ethical dilemmas, thereby promoting inter-organizational collaboration. This research offers new insights into the dynamic and adaptive nature of organizational ethics within project networks and provides practical guidance for organizations to balance instrumental goals and ethical objectives in complex project network environments.

项目网络中的价值共同创造涉及多个组织之间的协调与合作。由于组织之间的文化背景和战略目标的差异，组织的利益目标往往与其他参与者的道德期望相冲突。以往的研究主要集中在工具目标导向下任务冲突和角色冲突的影响。目前尚不清楚组织利益目标与外部伦理期望之间的不一致性如何影响组织之间的价值共同创造。本研究创新性地提出了组织道德反身性的中介机制。外部利益相关者的期望促使组织认识到自利行为的负面影响。通过批判性学习和自我反思，组织成员积极参与项目网络内的组织间协作。此外，研究还考察了网络嵌入性对道德反身性的调节作用。我们通过三波、两个月的滞后设计收集了281份调查问卷，以进行实证模型验证。研究发现，组织利益目标与外部伦理期望的不一致性对价值共同创造具有显著的负向影响。网络嵌入性越强，组织在面对道德困境时更倾向于表现出道德反身性，从而促进组织间的协作。本研究为项目网络中组织伦理的动态性和适应性提供了新的见解，并为组织在复杂的项目网络环境中平衡工具目标和伦理目标提供了实践指导。

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Orchestrated reciprocity over equilibrium: How relational behavior and task conflict configure pathways to relationship quality in inter-organizational projects 平衡之上的协调互惠：关系行为和任务冲突如何配置组织间项目中关系质量的路径

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102796

Wenqian Guo , Sixuan Yan , Yan Liu , Hanfei Wang , Marian Bosch-Rekveldt , Yan Ning

Managing behavioral interactions and conflicts across organizational boundaries remains a persistent challenge in project management. Inter-organizational relationship quality is closely related to the sustainable development of future cooperation, yet prior studies have reported contradictory findings. Rooted in the field of project behavior and conflict management, this study examines how relational behavior and task conflict jointly shape inter-organizational relationship quality. This study employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to uncover multiple configurational pathways leading to different levels of inter-organizational relationship quality. It examines how situational factors (task conflict and time delay) interact with behavioral factors (the relational behavior of both parties) to shape these outcomes. Based on survey data from 212 questionnaires, this study concludes that a key factor driving high relationship quality is when the three dimensions of relational behavior of both parties are aligned or when one collaborator more closely meets the expectations of both parties. Conversely, low relationship quality occurs when both task conflict and time delay are in an unfavorable state, especially when the relational behavior of the two parties is not equal. The findings contribute to conflict management literature by advancing a configurational understanding of how behavioral reciprocity and situational stressors shape relationship outcomes. These configurations show high consistency and coverage, indicating robust and empirically relevant patterns in inter-organizational relationship quality.

管理跨组织边界的行为交互和冲突仍然是项目管理中一个持续的挑战。组织间关系质量与未来合作的可持续发展密切相关，但以往的研究结果相互矛盾。植根于项目行为和冲突管理领域，本研究探讨了关系行为和任务冲突如何共同塑造组织间关系质量。本研究采用模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）揭示了导致不同层次组织间关系质量的多种配置路径。它考察了情境因素（任务冲突和时间延迟）如何与行为因素（双方的关系行为）相互作用，从而形成这些结果。基于212份问卷的调查数据，本研究得出结论，当双方的关系行为的三个维度是一致的，或者当一个合作者更接近双方的期望时，是驱动高关系质量的关键因素。相反，当任务冲突和时间延迟都处于不利状态时，特别是当双方的关系行为不平等时，关系质量较低。研究结果通过促进对行为互惠和情境压力因素如何影响关系结果的构型理解，为冲突管理文献做出了贡献。这些配置显示出高度的一致性和覆盖率，表明在组织间关系质量中具有健壮性和经验相关的模式。

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An ecosystem perspective of programme commercial strategy: the case of railway infrastructure renewal in Denmark from 1991–2024 项目商业战略的生态系统视角：1991-2024年丹麦铁路基础设施更新案例

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102793

Daniel Woodier, Christian Thuesen

Major programmes have an inherent co-dependence on the health of the market of project-based firms that are often crucial in the realisation of the programme. While considerable research exists on bilateral commercial relationships in construction, this research aims to gain a greater understanding of how programme commercial strategy influences the broader ecosystem of project-based firms. This paper makes a longitudinal case study of the national railway infrastructure renewal programme in Denmark from 1991 to 2024 to understand how the ecosystem has developed over time. The theoretical lens of business ecosystems gives insight into the influence of programme commercial strategy on the health of the market of suppliers. The findings demonstrate the importance of lifecycle, rate of growth, cospecialisation and packaging of projects in the development of programme commercial strategy. The paper concludes by proposing programme ecosystem strategy as an extension of programme commercial strategy which takes greater account of the influence of the programme at the ecosystem level.

主要方案与基于项目的公司市场的健康状况有着内在的相互依赖性，而这些公司往往对方案的实现至关重要。虽然存在大量关于建筑业双边商业关系的研究，但本研究的目的是更深入地了解项目商业战略如何影响基于项目的公司的更广泛的生态系统。本文对丹麦1991年至2024年的国家铁路基础设施更新计划进行了纵向案例研究，以了解生态系统是如何随着时间的推移而发展的。商业生态系统的理论视角让我们深入了解项目商业战略对供应商市场健康状况的影响。研究结果表明，项目的生命周期、增长率、共同专业化和包装在方案商业战略制定中的重要性。最后，本文提出了节目生态系统战略作为节目商业战略的延伸，它更多地考虑了节目在生态系统层面的影响。

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Interorganizational governance of transnational infrastructure programmes across multiple national environments: The south American BiOceanic Corridor as ‘the new Panama Canal’ 跨多国环境的跨国基础设施项目的组织间治理：南美生物海洋走廊作为“新巴拿马运河”

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102794

Alfons van Marrewijk

Increasingly, global connectivity is being shaped by transnational infrastructure megaprojects, which are commonly organized as programmes relying on specific interorganizational governance mechanisms. While previous research on programmes has examined how governance mechanisms address institutional conflicts, it has largely overlooked the pressures generated by multiple national environments. This paper examines a unique case study of the transnational BiOceanic Corridor programme in South America, which aims to construct a road connection between Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile in the absence of a central coordinating authority. The study identifies a balanced configuration of seven interorganizational governance mechanisms operating across three levels. The findings extend current debates on governance of transnational infrastructure programmes by showing how governance mechanisms are distributed and enacted across levels to manage institutional complexity. In addition, the study contributes to literature on governance mechanisms by presenting an empirical case where relational governance mechanisms predominate in facilitating programme progress.

全球连通性正日益受到跨国基础设施大型项目的影响，这些项目通常被组织为依赖特定组织间治理机制的项目。虽然以前对方案的研究考察了治理机制如何处理体制冲突，但它在很大程度上忽视了多国环境所产生的压力。本文考察了南美洲跨国生物海洋走廊方案的一个独特案例研究，该方案旨在在缺乏中央协调机构的情况下，在巴西、巴拉圭、阿根廷和智利之间建设一条公路连接。该研究确定了跨三个层次运行的七个组织间治理机制的平衡配置。研究结果通过展示治理机制如何在各级分布和制定以管理制度复杂性，扩展了目前关于跨国基础设施项目治理的辩论。此外，该研究提出了一个经验案例，其中关系治理机制在促进方案进展方面占主导地位，从而对治理机制的文献作出了贡献。

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Caring beyond compliance: how social procurement professionals reshape relational norms in construction projects 超越合规的关怀：社会采购专业人士如何重塑建设项目中的关系规范

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102783

Roksolana Suchowerska , Martin Loosemore , Ashlea Coen , Suhair Alkilani

Large construction projects are increasingly required to create social value through social procurement. Yet project managers often struggle to fulfil these contractual obligations due to industry norms that undermine the relational practices on which social value creation depends. Using Ethics of Care theory and drawing on semi-structured interviews with fifteen Social Procurement Professionals (SPPs) in the construction industry, this article investigates whether and how SPPs practice care, and how a caring relationality challenges the transactional, rationalist norms that otherwise prevent projects from creating social value. Thematic analysis shows that to create social value, SPPs foster trust, reciprocity, and collaboration among webs of project actors by evoking their emotions, moral responsibility, holistic perspectives, and long-term commitment to change. In doing so, SPPs act as intermediaries who work on shifting relational norms in projects towards greater inclusivity and care. The findings suggest that while SPPs often remain marginal and under-resourced in project structures, they play a critical role in shifting how projects create social value, thus offering new insights for both project management scholarship and practical implementation of social procurement.

越来越多的大型建设项目需要通过社会采购创造社会价值。然而，由于行业规范破坏了社会价值创造所依赖的关系实践，项目经理往往难以履行这些合同义务。本文利用关怀伦理理论，并利用对建筑行业15位社会采购专业人员（SPPs）的半结构化访谈，调查了SPPs是否以及如何实施关怀，以及关怀关系如何挑战交易性的理性主义规范，否则这些规范会阻碍项目创造社会价值。专题分析表明，为了创造社会价值，sps通过唤起项目参与者的情感、道德责任、整体观点和对变革的长期承诺，在项目参与者网络之间培养信任、互惠和合作。在这样做的过程中，spp充当中介，致力于将项目中的关系规范转向更大的包容性和关怀。研究结果表明，虽然spp在项目结构中往往处于边缘地位，资源不足，但它们在改变项目创造社会价值的方式方面发挥着关键作用，从而为项目管理学术研究和社会采购的实际实施提供了新的见解。

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Call for papers: Power and politics in project management 征文：项目管理中的权力与政治

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102790

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Building organizational and project readiness for AI: A dialectical approach 为人工智能构建组织和项目准备：辩证的方法

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102792

Daniel Erian Armanios , Christopher L. Tucci

To date, most organizational and project management studies have focused on how to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve outcomes. However, this wrongly assumes the preexisting project and organizational context is already prepared to incorporate such AI tooling productively. To address this issue, this essay proposes a provocation that we call CIPHER, a first-of-a-kind framework to increase organizational readiness for deploying AI in project work. CIPHER identifies six key tensions that occur with the use of AI: Cognitive, Informational, Projection, Haptic, Exchange, and Resource. These tensions occur either when humans directly interface with algorithms or indirectly where humans interface with an algorithmically driven robotic, immersive reality, and/or multi-agent system. For each tension, we identify a key project lever to navigate these tensions: intergenerational teaming, problem scoping, delivery-validation scaffolding, task separability, multi-agent governance, and model parsimony & transfer learning. Our aim is that through CIPHER, project leaders can harness the promise of AI while also more carefully managing its perils.

迄今为止，大多数组织和项目管理研究都集中在如何部署人工智能（AI）工具来改善结果上。然而，这错误地假设了先前存在的项目和组织环境已经准备好有效地合并这种人工智能工具。为了解决这个问题，本文提出了一个我们称之为CIPHER的挑衅，这是一个首创的框架，可以提高组织在项目工作中部署人工智能的准备程度。CIPHER确定了人工智能使用中出现的六个关键紧张关系：认知、信息、投射、触觉、交流和资源。当人类直接与算法交互时，或者当人类与算法驱动的机器人、沉浸式现实和/或多代理系统交互时，这些紧张关系就会发生。对于每种紧张关系，我们确定了一个关键的项目杠杆来处理这些紧张关系：代际团队合作、问题范围界定、交付验证脚手架、任务可分离性、多代理治理、模型简约和迁移学习。我们的目标是，通过CIPHER，项目负责人可以利用人工智能的前景，同时更仔细地管理其风险。

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Projectification without projects? Theorizing temporal structures of agile-based organizing 没有项目的项目？将基于敏捷的组织的时间结构理论化

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International Journal of Project Management

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102786

Joana Geraldi , Iben Stjerne , Matthias Wenzel

Research has revealed a surge in the reliance on projects to organize firms and society in recent decades, a phenomenon termed projectification, yet has remained oblivious to the fact that how projects are organized has changed, as, hence, has the nature of projectification. Grounded in the 4Ts—time, task, team, and transition—we analyze through an ethnographic work at a financial firm how agile-based organizing reshaped the firm’s temporal structures from temporary toward “continuous temporariness,” a continuous flow interrupted by short, orchestrated pauses. This form of projectification addresses temporal fragmentation in classic projects but introduces new challenges. Overall, agile-based projectification enriches project-based organizing with new temporal structures that challenge traditional notions of temporary organizations.

研究表明，近几十年来，企业和社会组织对项目的依赖激增，这种现象被称为项目化，但人们仍然忽略了这样一个事实，即项目的组织方式已经发生了变化，因此，项目化的性质也发生了变化。在4ts（时间、任务、团队和过渡）的基础上，我们通过在一家金融公司进行的一项民族志研究，分析了基于敏捷的组织如何将公司的时间结构从临时转变为“连续的临时”，即由精心安排的短暂停顿打断的连续流程。这种形式的投影解决了经典项目中的时间碎片，但引入了新的挑战。总的来说，基于敏捷的项目化用新的时间结构丰富了基于项目的组织，挑战了临时组织的传统概念。

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