OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Managing Projects in Business is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Praxis of knowledge-management and trust-based collaborative relationships in project delivery: mediating role of a project facilitator	52
Assessment of the causes and effects of design deficiencies for large construction projects using social network analysis	39
Project-based group work for enhancing students learning in project management education: an action research	22
Enhancing the quality of project management through action research	21
Using action research in innovation project management: building legitimacy and organizational learning in an SME during a merger process	19
Passionate projects: practitioner reflections on emotion management	18
Quantifying heterogeneous individual perceptions in project management research	17
Customer satisfaction, value for money and repurchase intent in the context of system delivery projects: a longitudinal study	16
Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects	16
How do projects decouple from coercive pressures? A study of decoupling in construction projects	16
IT-enabled management of project complexity – An Action Design Research project	15
Dealing with uncertainties in the design phase of road projects	15
Local community's engagement and enactment of social value from hydropower infrastructure	14
Integrating and transitioning the project front-end and project initiation phases in South African electrical engineering industrial projects	13
Combined strategy of trust repair in construction project organizations: an exploratory study in Chinese management scenario	13
The dark side of projectification: a systematic literature review and research agenda on the negative aspects of project work and their consequences for individual project workers	13
An evaluation of the adaptive performance of architects in project teams in Ghana using fuzzy approach	13
Linking complexity factors and project management approaches to performance: an embedded single case study of IT-enabled change projects in Australia	13
Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research	13
Use of leader–member exchange theory to promote the project governance of construction project contractors	12
Challenges of scaling agile in large enterprises and implications for project management	12
Contribution of person-team fit parameters to teamwork effectiveness in construction project teams	12
Infrastructure and health: the salutogenic approach, interdisciplinarity and new challenges for planning and design	12
Do nothing, do minimum or do something? Why public project appraisals “always” recommend large projects	11
Resilience of operating models: exploring the potential of agile project management as enabler	10

Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value	10
Organizational culture and project management methodology: research in the financial industry	10
Balancing between stability and change in Agile teams	10
How does leader's knowledge hiding kill innovative work behavior	10
Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders	9
Let the people decide! Citizen engagement and enfranchisement in the front end of urban development projects	9
Impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and the post-pandemic construction sector (Pakistan)	9
Book review: Socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects: dealing with uncertainties	9
Preparing project managers for the human aspects of project work: fostering sensemaking abilities	8
Vertical and horizontal trust and team learning: the role of organizational climate	8
Guest editorial: Rethinking infrastructure projects for the new normal	8
Defining integration capability dimensions and creating a corresponding self-assessment model for inter-organizational projects	8
Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience	7
Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios	7
Book review: Research handbook on the governance of projects	7
Impact of client vendor communication on client satisfaction in information system based projects	7
Project managers' ability to explore and exploit predictive and iterative best practices	6
External quality assurance of cost estimates in major public projects: empirical evidence on cost performance	6
Action design research: integration of method support	6
An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany	6
Learning from interorganizational projects	6
Stemming the tide: linking AI technology with workers retention	6
Project managing in post-conflict environments: an exploration of the resource profiles of Sri Lankan non-governmental organizations involved in development projects	6
Institutionalisation of sustainability in Indian megaprojects: an organisational field-based approach	6
Facing barriers to unlock large-scale agile benefits: exploring the mediating role of organizational readiness	6
Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management	5
Project governance: the impact of environmental changes on governance adaptations in large-scale projects	5
The impact of authentic leadership on project success: the mediating effect of organizational learning and innovation	5
Agile project portfolio management as a strategic enabler in the Brazilian marketplace: five case studies and one substantive theory	5
Unraveling the nexus: the impact of abusive supervision on project performance via sequential mediation of job embeddedness and job frustration	5
Towards a comprehensive framework to support project studies in the context of university research centres: a design science research	5
Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?	5
Shared mental models in multi-team systems: improving enterprise system implementation	5
The impact of ethical leadership on project success: the mediating role of trust and knowledge sharing	5
Where projects and non-projects coexist in the core challenges for frontline managers	5
Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing	4
An investigation of key precursors of megaproject crises	4
Early identification of distressed capital projects: a longitudinal approach	4
Governance distance and the performance of cross-border private participation infrastructure projects	4
Hero's journey as a framework to study a project manager	4
Book review: Les projets: Une histoire politique (XVIe-XXIe siècles)	4
Agile project management as a stage for creativity: a conceptual framework of five creativity-conducive spaces	4
Institutional quality configuration for encouraging private capital participation in PPP projects: evidence from 36 belt and road countries	4
Making sense of project governance and its role in strategy implementation: a governance-as-practice perspective	4
A categorisation of dialectics in response to project uncertainty	4
Crises and capabilities in project-based organizations: conceptual model and empirical evidence	3
Increasing stakeholder engagement in research projects through standardization activities	3
Organizational values in support of leadership styles fostering organizational resilience: a process perspective	3
What Generation Z needs: the role of project-based organizations in creating career sustainability	3
Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight	3

Using complexity and volatility characteristics to guide hybrid project management	3
The information-seeking behaviors of project managers in professional virtual communities	3
How critical success factors combine to influence success? A configurational theory approach on multiple social projects	3
Navigating the future of megaprojects sustainability: a comprehensive framework and research agendas	3
Understanding variations of governmentality and governance structures at the project level in project-based organizations	3
Developing a sustainable career through discourse: a qualitative study on a group of Italian project managers	3
Design science research with focus groups – a pragmatic meta-model	3
The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects	3
Understanding volunteer commitment to a project: testing a conceptual model	3
The impact of cross-organizational private relationships on cooperative behavior in construction projects: evidence from Chinese construction industry	3
Project managers: old, grumpy and suspicious or just “once bitten, twice shy?”	3
Energy justice issues in renewable energy megaprojects: implications for a socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects	2
How do adoption choices influence public private partnership outcomes? Lessons from Spain and Portugal transport infrastructure	2
The effect of megaproject external social responsibility on community acceptance: the mediating role of public trust	2
Stakeholders' perception of organization: an attribution and fairness perspective	2
Knowledge storage and accessibility in an interorganizational project: empirical evidence from the Orange Line metro train	2
Distributed team cognition and collaborative problem-solving in project management	2
Development of a behavioral taxonomy of agility in the workplace	2
Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects	2
System dynamics approach of knowledge transfer from projects to the project-based organization	2
The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams	2
Successful implementation of project risk management in small and medium enterprises: a cross-case analysis	2
Data analytics for project delivery: unlocking the potential of an emerging field	2
Revealing contribution mechanisms of project managers' technical competencies toward success in oil and gas projects	2
Contractual and relational enforcement in the aftermath of contract violations: the role of contracts and trust	2
Analyzing the influence of coopetition on resilience in the open innovation network from the perspective of knowledge diffusion	2
Book review – megaproject leaders – reflections on personal life stories	2
Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of projects: the moderating effect of emotional intelligence	2
Risk assessment of construction projects using Monte Carlo simulation	2
The client's essential stakeholder collaboration activities at the front-end phase of a hospital construction project	2