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Design flexibility in managing infrastructure projects: Contributing factors and research avenues
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102675
Kubra Atli, Ilias Krystallis
Managing infrastructure projects often presents challenges in maintaining flexibility throughout their lifecycle, which limits their ability to adapt to evolving and uncertain conditions. This systematic literature review examines the factors that accelerate design flexibility in the management of infrastructure projects. Analyzing 50 articles from a dataset of 11,443, we identified several key factors, organized into seven clusters across three levels: individuals, organizations, and inter-organizational relationships and three operational dimensions of design flexibility. These factors help to expand the concept of flexibility beyond its traditional association with engineering product design to encompass managerial project design. Building on Simon's design theory, this study frames design flexibility as a proactive and strategic asset. We offer future research directions to further broaden the scope of flexibility in project management. This study contributes to ongoing debates in project management on how to enhance project performance in uncertain conditions, by addressing the challenge of balancing flexibility and control.
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The dark legacy of megaprojects: A case of local disengagement, missed opportunities, and social value dissipation
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102676
Francesco Di Maddaloni , Leonardo Herszon Meira , Mauricio Oliveira de Andrade , Iury Ribeiro de Melo , Armando Castro , Giorgio Locatelli
Megaprojects can foster modernization and enhance social and economic development but also perpetuate poverty and deprivation. This dark legacy is fostered by weak governmental structures, where local communities lack representation and social welfare is sacrificed for economic gain. Through a normative stakeholder theory and social value perspective, we examine the nuanced interplay between local authorities and the project owner organization in the controversial case of Brazil's Suape Port. The substantial economic gains triggered by the Suape megaproject did not improve the social conditions for local communities. While the original business case primarily focused on economic profitability, the disengagement of local authorities and their communities prevented benefits from materializing at the local level. By examining these missed opportunities, we introduce the concept of value dissipation to explain how social value diminishes over time, resulting in a shortfall in social benefits and a poor legacy for local communities.
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Thinking is for doing: Project cognition as the foundation of project behaviour
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102678
Verena Stingl , Alicia Gilchrist , Ama Lawani , Rhona Flin , Ofer Zwikael
Cognition, understood as the way the mind acquires, processes, and enacts information, is at the root of all behaviour. Yet, while the interest in behaviour in projects is increasing, these cognitive foundations are often disregarded or only haphazardly investigated in project research. This essay calls for a stronger engagement with cognition in projects, leveraging the insights from general and applied cognition sciences to explore, explain, and predict project behaviour. We emphasise that it is not differences in the thinking itself, but differences in the context in which the thinking is applied, that makes projects a relevant and distinct area in which to study cognition. To sketch a way forward, we establish key terms, illustrate phenomena from project behaviour which might benefit from a study through a cognitive lens, and introduce appropriate theories from cognitive science. The insights generated from such research with attention to ‘project cognition’ are particularly valuable for practice as they help to design project environments that align with how people in projects make sense of their world and interact with it.
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IJPM invites special paper collections proposals 2026
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102680
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The local government project: A matchmaker or a troublemaker?
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102674
Grete Hagebakken, Trude Høgvold Olsen, Elsa Solstad
Several studies have focused on local government as project-supported organisations (PSOs) initiating projects aiming to solve non-routine activities, but we know less about the widespread practice of initiating projects to solve recurrent problems in daily operations. This paper reports findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study of how a project team in a Norwegian local authority navigated tensions in their efforts to solve a daily operations challenge. Our findings contribute to the recent debate about consequences of projects in PSOs. First, we argue that tensions in PSOs can be theorised as competition between co-existing institutional logics and understood in light of strategic owner capabilities. Further, we suggest that the perceived strength of tensions influences whether the project is interpreted as a matchmaker between different logics, or, at other times, as a troublemaker where the project team's interpretation of contextual complexity limits its ability to combine co-existing institutional logics.
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Enacting project resilience: Insights from Uruguayan air force flight 571′s crash in the Andes
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102677
Kijan Vakilzadeh , Sebastian Raetze
In this qualitative study, we examine how project members organize for resilience amid adversity by analyzing the case of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The survivors endured 72 days in the Andes, navigating uncertainty, time pressures, interpersonal conflict, and intense emotions—challenges similar to those in modern project organizations. Using insights from the survivors' (auto-)biographies, we conclude that resilience emerges through members' daily social interactions. Our findings reveal three key elements of project resilience: (1) processing contextuality, where sensebreaking and adaptive sensemaking evolve as adversity unfolds; (2) processing communality, which forms a socio-emotional foundation for resilience; and (3) shifting between different modes of emergent responding, by which project organizations harness the stability of structured responses while retaining the flexibility to adapt under pressure. This study highlights the dynamic processes through which project resilience is cultivated, offering insights for managing resilience in high-stakes environments.
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Normative violence and its implications in project scholarship
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102679
Roya Derakhshan
In recent years, project scholarship has increasingly focused on the dark side of projects. However, these discussions have largely overlooked extant literature on violence that is widely referenced in broader management and organizational studies. In this essay, I argue that normative violence—violence embedded in socio-cultural and legal norms accepted and practiced in broader society—provides a valuable lens through which to analyze and discuss the inequality, harm, and exploitation present in project settings. From this perspective, I argue that future research in project scholarship should investigate how norms—borrowed from external socio-cultural and legal frameworks, as well as those developed and spread within projects—can lead to the infliction of normative violence in, around, and of projects.
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The Relevance of Responsible Research for Project Scholars: Project Research as a Service to Society
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2024.102665
Christine Unterhitzenberger , Peter McKiernan , Martina Huemann
International Journal of Project Management (IJPM) has become a member of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) network to engage with the broader debate on responsible research in business and management towards responsible project research. We introduce Responsible Research as a Service to Society and discuss its relevance for project scholars and for IJPM. We share our commitment to support and publish research which follows seven Responsible Research principles and reflect how IJPM supports and inspires authors to adhere to them. We discuss how IJPM enables the project research community to move past the rigor-relevance gap and improve research and publication practices in the field.
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Adaptive sense-making for crises in interorganizational projects: The case of International Islamabad Airport project 组织间项目危机的适应性意义建构:以伊斯兰堡国际机场项目为例
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2024.102662
Rehab Iftikhar , Andrew Davies , Andrea Prencipe
Crisis is getting attention in project management literature; despite such efforts the topic is still in its infancy. The amount of impact crises has on interorganizational projects drastically increases the significance of crisis management research and calls for dire need to make sense of them. Hence, the purpose of this research is to enhance the understanding of sense-making for crises when multiple organizations are involved in an interorganizational project. We collected data using interviews, observations, archival documents, and illustrative materials to study the case of the International Islamabad Airport project in Pakistan. For analysis, we used grounded theory. Findings provide evidence that both sense-making and sense-giving processes are integrated and engaged for making sense of crises in interorganizational projects. We identified three dimensions of interorganizational sense-making: information gathering (through internal and external sources); crisis interpretation (exogenous, endogenous, social, and technical crises); and reactive responses, which involve direct responses for controllable crises and indirect responses for uncontrollable crises. We also found reporting/recording crises to be an element of sense-giving. The study offers valuable insights on crisis management in interorganizational projects, suggesting that interorganizational projects can better respond to crises by adopting an adaptive and cyclic sense-making approach.
危机在项目管理文献中越来越受到关注;尽管做出了这些努力,这个话题仍处于起步阶段。危机对组织间项目的影响大大增加了危机管理研究的重要性,并呼吁迫切需要理解它们。因此,本研究的目的是增进对多组织参与组织间项目时危机的意义建构的理解。我们使用访谈、观察、档案文件和说明性材料收集数据,以研究巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡国际机场项目的案例。为了进行分析,我们使用了扎根理论。研究结果提供了证据,证明在组织间项目中,意义形成过程和意义赋予过程都被整合和参与,以理解危机。我们确定了组织间意义构建的三个维度:信息收集(通过内部和外部来源);危机解释(外生危机、内生危机、社会危机和技术危机);反应性反应,包括对可控危机的直接反应和对不可控危机的间接反应。我们还发现报告/记录危机是一种赋予意义的元素。本研究为组织间项目的危机管理提供了有价值的见解,表明组织间项目可以通过采用适应性和循环意义构建方法更好地应对危机。
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An agency theory unpacking of how monitoring and evaluation affect international development project impact
IF 7.4 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2024.102654
Humera Amin, Mohsin Malik, Helana Scheepers
Impact is the overarching objective of international development (ID) projects, yet many projects struggle to attain it. Both academic literature and practical experience highlight the importance of adequate monitoring and evaluation in ensuring ID project impact. There is, however, not enough theoretical clarity on what constitutes adequate monitoring and evaluation and the specific mechanisms through which monitoring and evaluation affect ID project impact. This study addresses this important literature gap by applying agency theory to conceptualise ID project impact. We propose that monitoring and evaluation are adequate when they resolve agency issues of goal incongruence and information asymmetry. We test this novel conceptualisation statistically by drawing on a sample of 200 survey responses from ID professionals working in Pakistan. The empirical results indicate that project monitoring resolves both goal incongruence and information asymmetry to influence ID project impact. Project evaluation resolved goal incongruence to affect ID project impact, but it had no effect on information asymmetry. This novel theory informed conceptualisation and empirical testing of adequate monitoring and evaluation that resolve agency issues to ensure ID project impact carry substantial implications for both theory and practice.
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