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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board135
Agency relationships of project-based firms114
Forty years of organizational behaviour research in project management72
Benefits realisation in an agile environment71
Unveiling complex relational behavior in megaprojects: A qualitative-quantitative network approach60
Too little or too much transparency? Influencing accountability in project management through the practices of using digital technologies58
The role of mindfulness in the management of projects: Potential opportunities in research and practice54
Performance measurement methods in megaprojects: An analytical review53
Building megaproject resilience with stakeholders: The roles of citizenship behavior and critical transition mechanisms50
Editorial Board49
Editorial Board49
Prior and governed stakeholder relationships: The key to resilience of inter-organizational projects47
Resilience and creative problem-solving capacities in project teams: A relational view46
Projecting for sustainability transitions45
Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects44
The more the better? The role of stakeholder information processing in complex urban innovation projects for green transformation42
Examining the transition to agile practices with information technology projects: Agile teams and their experience of accountability42
Pursuing openness in the digital age: Insights from client–contractor knowledge collaboration at the project front end41
So many projects, so little result: The self-perpetuating cycle of inter-institutional projects41
A process–oriented framework to measure development performance and success of megaprojects39
Project portfolio formation as an organizational routine: Patterns of actions in implementing innovation strategy39
The “re-meaning” of project success: Updating and recalibrating for a modern project management37
Aligning stakeholders perceptions of project performance: The contribution of Business Realisation Management37
The co-creation of value by public and private actors in the front end of urban development projects37
Editorial Board37
Editorial Board36
How to improve the effects of knowledge governance on individual learning across projects: From the perspective of relational capital34
Measuring project team performance: A review and conceptualization34
The human factor in agility: Exploring employee dedication in agile project organizations33
Enabling projects for strategic implementation: Role of designated project manager in CEO-TMT interface during project front-end investment decisions33
The first impression counts: The essentials of writing a convincing introduction32
Editorial Board32
Avoiding the inflection point: Project management theory and research after 40 years32
Does entrepreneurial project monitoring and controlling process matter in social enterprises? Evidence from a developing African country32
Value exchanges within stakeholder networks throughout a megaproject's lifecycle30
Considering alternatives to megaprojects for a sustainable future with degrowth principles30
Tied islands: The role of organizational members in knowledge transfer across strategic projects30
Cooperating in interorganizational innovation projects: Toward a better understanding of coupling with the permanent ecosystem29
Beyond the paradox: Understanding how project leader humility and narcissism affect project outcomes29
Misfiring and still succeeding: Seeking success in megaprojects amidst changing regulatory environments29
When project outcomes matter: Organizational integration in managing long-term target benefits29
The dynamics of systems integration: Balancing stability and change on London's Crossrail project28
Power in news media: Framing strategies and effects in infrastructure projects28
Multi-project management in inter-organizational contexts27
Modeling strategic alignment in project networks27
Studying Projects Processually27
Are project-based organizations willing to learn compliance lessons from sanctioned organizations close to them? The moderating effect of knowledge base compatibility and strength of the event27
Introduction–A special section in honor of Peter Morris26
Issues and challenges impacting the successful management of agile-hybrid projects: A grounded theory approach26
Change in a project-based organization: The mutual shaping of institutional logics and change programs25
The project is dead. Long live the project25
Editorial Board25
Closing capability gaps for procuring infrastructure public-private partnerships: A case study in China25
Building legitimacy in flexible work projects: A study on institutional, organizational, and individual narratives24
The organisational architecture of megaprojects23
The performance effects of optimistic and pessimistic project status reporting behavior23
Broadening project studies to address sustainability transitions: Conceptual suggestions and crossovers with socio-technical transitions research23
Engaging the organizational field: The case of project practices in a construction firm to contribute to an emerging economy22
Similar but different? The influence of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and person-job fit on individual performance in the continuum between permanent and temporary organizations22
A project-as-practice perspective on helping behavior and reciprocity in an inter-organizational project22
What Peter Morris's books meant to me: An Amarcord22
Breaking free from the invisible cage: Leveraging institutional logics to understand and facilitate organizational change projects22
Acquisitions as programs: The role of sensemaking and sensegiving22
Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective21
Integration of an exploration program with its parent organization: A lifecycle perspective21
Project team resilience: The effect of group potency and interpersonal trust21
Impacts of knowledge expectations on recipients’ continuous cross-project learning intention20
Editorial Board20
Enriching the concept of authentic leadership in project-based organisations through the lens of life-stories and self-identities19
Formation of inter-project ties from the sender–recipient perspective: Roles of task interdependence and functional interdependence19
Projects as drivers of sustainability: How the adoption of the reuse principle affects the front-end of a construction project19
Success Management – From theory to practice19
Editorial Board19
Complements or substitutes? Recipes of contract design, contract enforcement, and trust for enhanced project performance19
Antecedents to bounce forward: A case study tracing the resilience of inter-organisational projects in the face of disruptions19
Risk factor prioritization in infrastructure handover to operations19
Editorial Board18
Field-configuring projects: How projects shape the public reflection of electric mobility in Germany18
Toward a systematic understanding of megaproject improvisation17
Shaping interorganizational strategic projects through power relations and strategic practices16
Surfacing and responding paradoxes in megascale projects16
Developing new knowledge: A virtual collection of project management review articles16
Understanding project management performance using a comparative overrun measure16
Editorial Board16
Projects as interventions16
Editorial Board15
Beneficiary participation is an imperative, not an option, but does it really work in international development projects?15
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 succ15
Editorial Board15
The Relevance of Responsible Research for Project Scholars: Project Research as a Service to Society15
Cultivating crisis research in project studies: Insights from management and organisation studies by Christine Pearson15
Enhancing project managers’ strategy commitment by leader-leader exchange: The role of psychological empowerment and organizational identification15
An essay on deprojectification: Drivers and consequences14
Political ecology perspective for a new way of understanding stakeholders and value in infrastructure projects14
International technology transfer through projects: A social construction of technology perspective14
Not all project ambiguity is equal: A typology of project ambiguity and implications for its management14
Balancing on a tightrope: Coping with concurrent institutional logics in project business14
Editorial Board14
Shared leadership and project success: The roles of knowledge sharing, cohesion and trust in the team14
Enacting project resilience: Insights from Uruguayan air force flight 571′s crash in the Andes14
Managing large-scale projects: Unpacking the role of project memory14
Design science research and the co-creation of project management knowledge13
Coming to terms with project success: Current perspectives and future challenges13
Turning narratives into collective action through projects13
How do institutional pressures moderate the impacts of relational governance on the performance of international projects? An empirical assessment13
What does it take to kill a megaproject? The reverse escalation of commitment13
Editorial Board13
Unraveling local relationship patterns in project networks: A network motif approach13
Will the past guide us? Towards more reflective research on projects12
Editorial Board12
HOLEY MOLEY, the poppycock syndrome, and academic drift12
Performance measurement in new product development projects: findings from successful small and medium enterprises12
Corrigendum to “Owner challenges on major projects: The case of UK government” [Int. J. Proj. Manag. 38 (2020) 177–187]11
Cracking the megaproject puzzle: A stakeholder perspective?11
Design flexibility in managing infrastructure projects: Contributing factors and research avenues11
Exploring the critical nexus between authoritarian leadership, project team member's silence and multi-dimensional success in a state-owned mega construction project11
Editorial Board11
Construction project management fiction: Individual values11
The local government project: A matchmaker or a troublemaker?10
Strategic responses to external stakeholder influences10
Examining owners’ and contractors’ motivations to participate in collaborative risk management of mega infrastructure projects10
How Organisational and Team Climates Foster Design Thinking for Project Success10
Organisation design in megaprojects: A systematic literature review and research agenda10
Is this How Big Things Get Done?10
Organizing coopetitive tensions: Collaborative consumption in project ecologies9
The interplay of formal integrative mechanisms and relational norms in project collaboration9
Editorial Board9
Navigating multiple contexts to integrate system transformation programs9
Using nudges to realize project performance management9
Transcending the silos through project management office: Knowledge transactions, brokerage roles, and enabling factors9
Public project success? Measuring the nuances of success through ex post evaluation9
Facilitating and improving learning in projects: Evidence from a lean approach8
Multi-level perspective framework in macro project studies: Towards a complex project organizing approach to sustainability transitions8
Does project management matter? The relationship between project management effort, complexity, and profitability8
Editorial Board8
Stakeholder engagement: Theoretical and methodological directions for project scholarship8
Owners managing the commercial interface on complex projects: A pluralistic theoretical perspective8
Grandstanding? The elusive process of shaping megaproject symbolism7
Editorial Board7
IJPM invites special paper collections proposals 20267
Editorial Board7
Evolution of project studies through the lens of engaged scholarship: A longitudinal bibliometric analysis7
Fair project governance: An organisational justice approach to project governance7
How projects co-create value with stakeholders: The role of ideology and inquiry in spanning the temporary-permanent boundary7
Why clear managerial recommendations matter in major projects research: Searching for relevance in practice7
Call for papers: Lifecycles, processes, and practices in strategic projects and programs7
How partners’ knowledge base and complexity are related to innovative project success: The roles of trust and trust capability of partners7
Editorial Board7
Collaboration and opportunism in megaproject alliance contracts: The interplay between governance, trust and culture7
Dynamics of couplings and their implications in inter-organizational multi-actor research and innovation projects7
Demolishers or ‘material experts’? Project actors negotiating changing roles in sustainable projects7
A Meta-theoretical framework for theory building in project management7
Kahneman's legacy in project management: Improving decision-making and performance6
The Megaproject-based Firm: Building programme management capability to deliver megaprojects6
A pragmatist perspective on front-end project organizing: The case of refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster6
Boundary work in a project-based organization: Flow across interdependent boundaries in interorganizational programs6
Naturalistic decision making and decision drivers in the front end of complex projects6
Empowering project team to perform: Directive and facilitative antecedents6
Celebrating the power of projects and their management6
Effect of social identification on ego depletion of project managers: The role of project tasks and project complexity6
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