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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Performance measurement methods in megaprojects: An analytical review134
The role of mindfulness in the management of projects: Potential opportunities in research and practice59
Building megaproject resilience with stakeholders: The roles of citizenship behavior and critical transition mechanisms59
Forty years of organizational behaviour research in project management58
Agency relationships of project-based firms57
Benefits realisation in an agile environment50
Too little or too much transparency? Influencing accountability in project management through the practices of using digital technologies48
Unveiling complex relational behavior in megaprojects: A qualitative-quantitative network approach47
Editorial Board46
The more the better? The role of stakeholder information processing in complex urban innovation projects for green transformation45
Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects43
Projecting for sustainability transitions43
Prior and governed stakeholder relationships: The key to resilience of inter-organizational projects41
Examining the transition to agile practices with information technology projects: Agile teams and their experience of accountability40
Projecting for sustainability transitions: Contrasting two types of project-oriented agency40
Enhancing sensing capabilities in project-based organizations: the role of knowledge transfer between commercial and operational teams40
Pursuing openness in the digital age: Insights from client–contractor knowledge collaboration at the project front end39
So many projects, so little result: The self-perpetuating cycle of inter-institutional projects39
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Project portfolio formation as an organizational routine: Patterns of actions in implementing innovation strategy36
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Knowledge governance mechanisms and regulatory focus effects on online collective knowledge sharing in project teams35
The “re-meaning” of project success: Updating and recalibrating for a modern project management34
A process–oriented framework to measure development performance and success of megaprojects34
Aligning stakeholders perceptions of project performance: The contribution of Business Realisation Management33
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The co-creation of value by public and private actors in the front end of urban development projects33
Does entrepreneurial project monitoring and controlling process matter in social enterprises? Evidence from a developing African country32
Measuring project team performance: A review and conceptualization31
The human factor in agility: Exploring employee dedication in agile project organizations31
How to improve the effects of knowledge governance on individual learning across projects: From the perspective of relational capital31
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Value exchanges within stakeholder networks throughout a megaproject's lifecycle29
The first impression counts: The essentials of writing a convincing introduction29
Considering alternatives to megaprojects for a sustainable future with degrowth principles28
Call for papers: Digitalisation of and by projects: A sociotechnical perspective on the consequences for project work28
Avoiding the inflection point: Project management theory and research after 40 years28
Tied islands: The role of organizational members in knowledge transfer across strategic projects28
The dynamics of systems integration: Balancing stability and change on London's Crossrail project27
Beyond the paradox: Understanding how project leader humility and narcissism affect project outcomes27
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
Modeling strategic alignment in project networks25
Client management in the project domain: towards conceptual integration using cross-disciplinary research25
When project outcomes matter: Organizational integration in managing long-term target benefits25
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Power in news media: Framing strategies and effects in infrastructure projects24
Studying Projects Processually24
Multi-project management in inter-organizational contexts23
Introduction–A special section in honor of Peter Morris23
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Call for Papers: Towards Stronger Theorising of Temporary Organising22
Closing capability gaps for procuring infrastructure public-private partnerships: A case study in China22
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Building legitimacy in flexible work projects: A study on institutional, organizational, and individual narratives21
The performance effects of optimistic and pessimistic project status reporting behavior21
Acquisitions as programs: The role of sensemaking and sensegiving21
Change in a project-based organization: The mutual shaping of institutional logics and change programs21
Behavioral barriers to sustainable action in project management and how to overcome them21
Broadening project studies to address sustainability transitions: Conceptual suggestions and crossovers with socio-technical transitions research20
The project is dead. Long live the project20
How entrepreneurial orientation influences project portfolio success: The roles of ideation portfolio management and firm size19
Breaking free from the invisible cage: Leveraging institutional logics to understand and facilitate organizational change projects19
A project-as-practice perspective on helping behavior and reciprocity in an inter-organizational project19
Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective19
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What Peter Morris's books meant to me: An Amarcord18
Integration of an exploration program with its parent organization: A lifecycle perspective18
Similar but different? The influence of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and person-job fit on individual performance in the continuum between permanent and temporary organizations18
Projects as drivers of sustainability: How the adoption of the reuse principle affects the front-end of a construction project17
Complements or substitutes? Recipes of contract design, contract enforcement, and trust for enhanced project performance17
Impacts of knowledge expectations on recipients’ continuous cross-project learning intention17
Success Management – From theory to practice17
Antecedents to bounce forward: A case study tracing the resilience of inter-organisational projects in the face of disruptions17
Enriching the concept of authentic leadership in project-based organisations through the lens of life-stories and self-identities17
Risk factor prioritization in infrastructure handover to operations17
Shaping interorganizational strategic projects through power relations and strategic practices16
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Toward a systematic understanding of megaproject improvisation16
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Exploring the dynamics of project failure and organizational learning in project-based firms: A study in the U.S. film industry16
The ‘invisible hand’ of institutional logics on professionalizing project management amid increasing projectification15
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Formation of inter-project ties from the sender–recipient perspective: Roles of task interdependence and functional interdependence15
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Projects as interventions15
Understanding project management performance using a comparative overrun measure15
Surfacing and responding paradoxes in megascale projects15
Cultivating crisis research in project studies: Insights from management and organisation studies by Christine Pearson14
Beneficiary participation is an imperative, not an option, but does it really work in international development projects?14
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
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Not all project ambiguity is equal: A typology of project ambiguity and implications for its management14
Developing new knowledge: A virtual collection of project management review articles14
The Relevance of Responsible Research for Project Scholars: Project Research as a Service to Society14
Political ecology perspective for a new way of understanding stakeholders and value in infrastructure projects13
Enhancing project managers’ strategy commitment by leader-leader exchange: The role of psychological empowerment and organizational identification13
An essay on deprojectification: Drivers and consequences13
How do institutional pressures moderate the impacts of relational governance on the performance of international projects? An empirical assessment12
Design science research and the co-creation of project management knowledge12
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International technology transfer through projects: A social construction of technology perspective12
Coming to terms with project success: Current perspectives and future challenges11
Balancing on a tightrope: Coping with concurrent institutional logics in project business11
Managing large-scale projects: Unpacking the role of project memory11
Enacting project resilience: Insights from Uruguayan air force flight 571′s crash in the Andes11
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Turning narratives into collective action through projects11
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Strategic responses to external stakeholder influences10
Is this How Big Things Get Done?10
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Performance measurement in new product development projects: findings from successful small and medium enterprises10
Corrigendum to “Owner challenges on major projects: The case of UK government” [Int. J. Proj. Manag. 38 (2020) 177–187]10
Cracking the megaproject puzzle: A stakeholder perspective?10
What does it take to kill a megaproject? The reverse escalation of commitment10
Organisation design in megaprojects: A systematic literature review and research agenda9
Design flexibility in managing infrastructure projects: Contributing factors and research avenues9
Public project success? Measuring the nuances of success through ex post evaluation9
Examining owners’ and contractors’ motivations to participate in collaborative risk management of mega infrastructure projects9
Exploring the critical nexus between authoritarian leadership, project team member's silence and multi-dimensional success in a state-owned mega construction project9
HOLEY MOLEY, the poppycock syndrome, and academic drift9
Transcending the silos through project management office: Knowledge transactions, brokerage roles, and enabling factors9
How organisational and team climates foster design thinking for project success9
Will the past guide us? Towards more reflective research on projects9
The local government project: A matchmaker or a troublemaker?9
Using nudges to realize project performance management9
Facilitating and improving learning in projects: Evidence from a lean approach8
Owners managing the commercial interface on complex projects: A pluralistic theoretical perspective8
Navigating multiple contexts to integrate system transformation programs8
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Stakeholder engagement: Theoretical and methodological directions for project scholarship8
Multi-level perspective framework in macro project studies: Towards a complex project organizing approach to sustainability transitions8
The interplay of formal integrative mechanisms and relational norms in project collaboration8
There’s people in there! On Daniel Kahneman’s enduring impact8
Organizing coopetitive tensions: Collaborative consumption in project ecologies8
Does project management matter? The relationship between project management effort, complexity, and profitability8
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How projects co-create value with stakeholders: The role of ideology and inquiry in spanning the temporary-permanent boundary7
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Dynamics of couplings and their implications in inter-organizational multi-actor research and innovation projects7
Grandstanding? The elusive process of shaping megaproject symbolism7
Call for papers: Lifecycles, processes, and practices in strategic projects and programs7
Kahneman's legacy in project management: Improving decision-making and performance7
Boundary work in a project-based organization: Flow across interdependent boundaries in interorganizational programs6
Why clear managerial recommendations matter in major projects research: Searching for relevance in practice6
A Meta-theoretical framework for theory building in project management6
How partners’ knowledge base and complexity are related to innovative project success: The roles of trust and trust capability of partners6
Demolishers or ‘material experts’? Project actors negotiating changing roles in sustainable projects6
Effect of social identification on ego depletion of project managers: The role of project tasks and project complexity6
Evolution of project studies through the lens of engaged scholarship: A longitudinal bibliometric analysis6
A pragmatist perspective on front-end project organizing: The case of refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster6
Empowering project team to perform: Directive and facilitative antecedents6
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