International Journal of Project Management

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Project Management is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Too little or too much transparency? Influencing accountability in project management through the practices of using digital technologies143
Benefits realisation in an agile environment68
The role of mindfulness in the management of projects: Potential opportunities in research and practice61
Performance measurement methods in megaprojects: An analytical review60
Forty years of organizational behaviour research in project management58
Agency relationships of project-based firms52
Building megaproject resilience with stakeholders: The roles of citizenship behavior and critical transition mechanisms52
Unveiling complex relational behavior in megaprojects: A qualitative-quantitative network approach52
Editorial Board48
Examining the transition to agile practices with information technology projects: Agile teams and their experience of accountability46
Pursuing openness in the digital age: Insights from client–contractor knowledge collaboration at the project front end45
Projecting for sustainability transitions45
Enhancing sensing capabilities in project-based organizations: the role of knowledge transfer between commercial and operational teams44
Projecting for sustainability transitions: Contrasting two types of project-oriented agency42
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Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects41
The more the better? The role of stakeholder information processing in complex urban innovation projects for green transformation40
So many projects, so little result: The self-perpetuating cycle of inter-institutional projects40
Digital pathways in project communication: A process study of community engagement40
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Prior and governed stakeholder relationships: The key to resilience of inter-organizational projects38
Knowledge governance mechanisms and regulatory focus effects on online collective knowledge sharing in project teams36
A process–oriented framework to measure development performance and success of megaprojects36
Aligning stakeholders perceptions of project performance: The contribution of Business Realisation Management35
The “re-meaning” of project success: Updating and recalibrating for a modern project management34
The co-creation of value by public and private actors in the front end of urban development projects34
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Conceptualizing semi-temporary project networks through actor roles in smart city innovation34
Project portfolio formation as an organizational routine: Patterns of actions in implementing innovation strategy34
Does entrepreneurial project monitoring and controlling process matter in social enterprises? Evidence from a developing African country33
The human factor in agility: Exploring employee dedication in agile project organizations32
How to improve the effects of knowledge governance on individual learning across projects: From the perspective of relational capital31
The first impression counts: The essentials of writing a convincing introduction31
Measuring project team performance: A review and conceptualization31
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Avoiding the inflection point: Project management theory and research after 40 years30
Value exchanges within stakeholder networks throughout a megaproject's lifecycle29
Considering alternatives to megaprojects for a sustainable future with degrowth principles28
Narratives and counter-narratives in sustainability transitions: A study on the Port of Rotterdam from a multi-level perspective28
Tied islands: The role of organizational members in knowledge transfer across strategic projects28
When project outcomes matter: Organizational integration in managing long-term target benefits27
Modeling strategic alignment in project networks27
Beyond the paradox: Understanding how project leader humility and narcissism affect project outcomes27
Call for papers: Digitalisation of and by projects: A sociotechnical perspective on the consequences for project work27
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Misfiring and still succeeding: Seeking success in megaprojects amidst changing regulatory environments26
Cooperating in interorganizational innovation projects: Toward a better understanding of coupling with the permanent ecosystem26
Multi-project management in inter-organizational contexts25
Client management in the project domain: towards conceptual integration using cross-disciplinary research25
Introduction–A special section in honor of Peter Morris24
Studying Projects Processually24
Power in news media: Framing strategies and effects in infrastructure projects24
Call for Papers: Towards Stronger Theorising of Temporary Organising24
The dynamics of systems integration: Balancing stability and change on London's Crossrail project24
Closing capability gaps for procuring infrastructure public-private partnerships: A case study in China22
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Behavioral barriers to sustainable action in project management and how to overcome them22
Change in a project-based organization: The mutual shaping of institutional logics and change programs22
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Building legitimacy in flexible work projects: A study on institutional, organizational, and individual narratives21
Broadening project studies to address sustainability transitions: Conceptual suggestions and crossovers with socio-technical transitions research21
Acquisitions as programs: The role of sensemaking and sensegiving21
The performance effects of optimistic and pessimistic project status reporting behavior21
How entrepreneurial orientation influences project portfolio success: The roles of ideation portfolio management and firm size20
The project is dead. Long live the project20
Breaking free from the invisible cage: Leveraging institutional logics to understand and facilitate organizational change projects20
Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective19
Similar but different? The influence of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and person-job fit on individual performance in the continuum between permanent and temporary organizations19
A project-as-practice perspective on helping behavior and reciprocity in an inter-organizational project19
Integration of an exploration program with its parent organization: A lifecycle perspective19
What Peter Morris's books meant to me: An Amarcord19
Editorial Board19
Impacts of knowledge expectations on recipients’ continuous cross-project learning intention18
Risk factor prioritization in infrastructure handover to operations18
Antecedents to bounce forward: A case study tracing the resilience of inter-organisational projects in the face of disruptions18
Complements or substitutes? Recipes of contract design, contract enforcement, and trust for enhanced project performance18
Projects as drivers of sustainability: How the adoption of the reuse principle affects the front-end of a construction project18
Enriching the concept of authentic leadership in project-based organisations through the lens of life-stories and self-identities18
Surfacing and responding paradoxes in megascale projects17
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Success Management – From theory to practice17
Understanding project management performance using a comparative overrun measure16
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Formation of inter-project ties from the sender–recipient perspective: Roles of task interdependence and functional interdependence16
Shaping interorganizational strategic projects through power relations and strategic practices16
Exploring the dynamics of project failure and organizational learning in project-based firms: A study in the U.S. film industry16
Projects as interventions15
Not all project ambiguity is equal: A typology of project ambiguity and implications for its management15
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Developing new knowledge: A virtual collection of project management review articles15
Toward a systematic understanding of megaproject improvisation15
Political ecology perspective for a new way of understanding stakeholders and value in infrastructure projects15
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The Relevance of Responsible Research for Project Scholars: Project Research as a Service to Society15
The ‘invisible hand’ of institutional logics on professionalizing project management amid increasing projectification15
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Cultivating crisis research in project studies: Insights from management and organisation studies by Christine Pearson14
An essay on deprojectification: Drivers and consequences14
When frameworks empower their agents: The effect of organizational project management frameworks on the performance of project managers and benefits managers in delivering transformation projects succ14
Beneficiary participation is an imperative, not an option, but does it really work in international development projects?14
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Enhancing project managers’ strategy commitment by leader-leader exchange: The role of psychological empowerment and organizational identification13
Balancing on a tightrope: Coping with concurrent institutional logics in project business12
Coming to terms with project success: Current perspectives and future challenges12
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Enacting project resilience: Insights from Uruguayan air force flight 571′s crash in the Andes12
International technology transfer through projects: A social construction of technology perspective12
Turning narratives into collective action through projects12
Design science research and the co-creation of project management knowledge11
How do institutional pressures moderate the impacts of relational governance on the performance of international projects? An empirical assessment11
What does it take to kill a megaproject? The reverse escalation of commitment11
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HOLEY MOLEY, the poppycock syndrome, and academic drift11
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Managing large-scale projects: Unpacking the role of project memory11
Corrigendum to “Owner challenges on major projects: The case of UK government” [Int. J. Proj. Manag. 38 (2020) 177–187]11
Will the past guide us? Towards more reflective research on projects11
Design flexibility in managing infrastructure projects: Contributing factors and research avenues10
Performance measurement in new product development projects: findings from successful small and medium enterprises10
Strategic responses to external stakeholder influences10
Exploring the critical nexus between authoritarian leadership, project team member's silence and multi-dimensional success in a state-owned mega construction project10
How organisational and team climates foster design thinking for project success10
Navigating multiple contexts to integrate system transformation programs10
Is this How Big Things Get Done?10
Cracking the megaproject puzzle: A stakeholder perspective?10
Examining owners’ and contractors’ motivations to participate in collaborative risk management of mega infrastructure projects9
The interplay of formal integrative mechanisms and relational norms in project collaboration9
Public project success? Measuring the nuances of success through ex post evaluation9
Organisation design in megaprojects: A systematic literature review and research agenda9
Transcending the silos through project management office: Knowledge transactions, brokerage roles, and enabling factors9
Using nudges to realize project performance management9
The local government project: A matchmaker or a troublemaker?9
Stakeholder engagement: Theoretical and methodological directions for project scholarship8
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Does project management matter? The relationship between project management effort, complexity, and profitability8
There’s people in there! On Daniel Kahneman’s enduring impact8
Owners managing the commercial interface on complex projects: A pluralistic theoretical perspective8
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Organizing coopetitive tensions: Collaborative consumption in project ecologies8
Multi-level perspective framework in macro project studies: Towards a complex project organizing approach to sustainability transitions8
Facilitating and improving learning in projects: Evidence from a lean approach8
How projects co-create value with stakeholders: The role of ideology and inquiry in spanning the temporary-permanent boundary7
Call for papers: Lifecycles, processes, and practices in strategic projects and programs7
Evolution of project studies through the lens of engaged scholarship: A longitudinal bibliometric analysis7
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Demolishers or ‘material experts’? Project actors negotiating changing roles in sustainable projects7
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Grandstanding? The elusive process of shaping megaproject symbolism7
IJPM invites special paper collections proposals 20267
Boundary work in a project-based organization: Flow across interdependent boundaries in interorganizational programs7
Kahneman's legacy in project management: Improving decision-making and performance7
A pragmatist perspective on front-end project organizing: The case of refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster6
Why clear managerial recommendations matter in major projects research: Searching for relevance in practice6
The Megaproject-based Firm: Building programme management capability to deliver megaprojects6
Naturalistic decision making and decision drivers in the front end of complex projects6
Dynamics of couplings and their implications in inter-organizational multi-actor research and innovation projects6
The stress-inducing potential of inclusive leadership: Does resilience help?6
Confronting information dilemma: How does collective mindfulness foster team improvisation in megaprojects6
Empowering project team to perform: Directive and facilitative antecedents6
How partners’ knowledge base and complexity are related to innovative project success: The roles of trust and trust capability of partners6
A Meta-theoretical framework for theory building in project management6
Moving goals and governance in megaprojects6
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