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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How does leader's knowledge hiding kill innovative work behavior	57
Impact of using project management tools and techniques on project and firm performance	30
Challenges of scaling agile in large enterprises and implications for project management	23
Praxis of knowledge-management and trust-based collaborative relationships in project delivery: mediating role of a project facilitator	23
The impact of authentic leadership on project success: the mediating effect of organizational learning and innovation	20
Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects	20
An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany	19
Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing	19
Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management	18
Project governance: the impact of environmental changes on governance adaptations in large-scale projects	18
How good governance leads to better project performance through improved decision-making	17
Healthcare ecosystem integrated project management oriented to the patient journey: a systematic literature review	17
Impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and the post-pandemic construction sector (Pakistan)	17
System dynamics approach of knowledge transfer from projects to the project-based organization	16
Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight	15
A categorisation of dialectics in response to project uncertainty	14
Wrong, but not failed? A study of unexpected events and project performance in 21 engineering projects	13
Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects	13
Design science research with focus groups – a pragmatic meta-model	13
The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams	13
Using simulations in project management education – impact on awareness and ability to navigate projects in a sustainable way	12
Revealing contribution mechanisms of project managers' technical competencies toward success in oil and gas projects	12
Social value creation in major science research facilities: implications for construction project proposals and benefits management	11
Managing stakeholder attributes for risk mitigation: evidence from construction project contractors	11
Structuring concrete boundary objects for project-to-project learning: a state-of-practice review	11

Achieving project performance goals in extreme resource-constrained environments: the role of bricolage in social enterprise projects	11
Control of project data and team satisfaction as results of PMO effort in new product development projects	11
Exploring the resource manager role in a project-based organization	10
An exploratory investigation of performance criteria in managing and controlling new product development projects: Canadian SMEs' perspectives	10
Configurations for high outsourcing performance in construction projects: an integrated perspective of transaction costs and capabilities	10
Understanding project cost contingency estimation: a holistic risk perspective	10
Conflicting or co-existing logics – doing action research within the framework of a project in a university	10
Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research	9
An evaluation of the adaptive performance of architects in project teams in Ghana using fuzzy approach	9
Integrating and transitioning the project front-end and project initiation phases in South African electrical engineering industrial projects	9
Knowledge management enablers and barriers: exploring the moderating effect of communication barriers	9
Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value	8
Book review: Research handbook on the governance of projects	8
Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders	8
Defining integration capability dimensions and creating a corresponding self-assessment model for inter-organizational projects	8
Using action research in innovation project management: building legitimacy and organizational learning in an SME during a merger process	8
The effects of big data analytics capabilities on agile software development practices and project performance: a dynamic capabilities view perspective	8
The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects	7
Towards a comprehensive framework to support project studies in the context of university research centres: a design science research	7
Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?	7
Impact of client vendor communication on client satisfaction in information system based projects	7
Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios	7
Governance distance and the performance of cross-border private participation infrastructure projects	6
Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of projects: the moderating effect of emotional intelligence	6
Internal projects as strategic tools: an organisation-level perspective and a research agenda	6
Empowering urban sustainability: unveiling the crucial role of project managers in attaining Sustainable Development Goal 11	6
Developing a sustainable career through discourse: a qualitative study on a group of Italian project managers	6
Developing project-based supplier relations in a programmatic multi-project context: an exemplary case study from the construction industry	6
Ability or morality? Exploring the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance of urban transport infrastructure projects	6
Principle-based decision-making: realising benefits in a scaled agile environment	6
A clash of clans: an empirical study of conflicting institutional logics and their impact on megaproject collaboration	6
Understanding volunteer commitment to a project: testing a conceptual model	6
Assessment of early warning signs in hospital projects' front-end phase	6
The nexus of project management approaches in sustainable development: innovative behaviors as a mechanism in the Polish financial industry	6
Linking complexity factors and project management approaches to performance: an embedded single case study of IT-enabled change projects in Australia	5
How digital innovation affects the cooperative behavior?	5
Let the people decide! Citizen engagement and enfranchisement in the front end of urban development projects	5
Knowledge loss and retention in interorganizational projects: evidence from public transportation projects from Pakistan	5
Multi-dimensional organizational motivations: the catalyst for interorganizational knowledge sharing in megaprojects	5
Enhancing the quality of project management through action research	4
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	4
Action design research: integration of method support	4
Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience	4
Contribution of person-team fit parameters to teamwork effectiveness in construction project teams	4
Vertical and horizontal trust and team learning: the role of organizational climate	4
External quality assurance of cost estimates in major public projects: empirical evidence on cost performance	4
What Generation Z needs: the role of project-based organizations in creating career sustainability	4
How do projects decouple from coercive pressures? A study of decoupling in construction projects	4
Project managing in post-conflict environments: an exploration of the resource profiles of Sri Lankan non-governmental organizations involved in development projects	4
Where projects and non-projects coexist in the core challenges for frontline managers	4

Shared mental models in multi-team systems: improving enterprise system implementation	4
The mediation role of the PMO in the transfer of knowledge between projects – a case study of five PMOs	3
Book review – megaproject leaders – reflections on personal life stories	3
Crisis management process for project-based organizations	3
Analyzing the influence of coopetition on resilience in the open innovation network from the perspective of knowledge diffusion	3
Reach for the sky: analysis of behavioral competencies linked to project success	3
Enhancing the impact of transformational leadership and team-building on project success: the moderating role of empowerment climate	3
Understanding the interacting layers of multi-level governance in Quebec’s public infrastructure projects	3
Development of a behavioral taxonomy of agility in the workplace	3
Impact of the project manager's transformational leadership, influenced by mediation of self-leadership and moderation of empowerment, on project success	3
Towards a comprehensive conceptual framework for multicultural virtual teams: a multilevel perspective exploring the relationship between multiculturalism and performance	3
The effect of opportunism on the success of international development (ID) projects in a context dominated by a collectivist culture	3
Temporary and permanent aspects of project organizing – operation and maintenance of road infrastructure	3
Harnessing information processing theory: key organizational initiatives for digital transformation projects success	3
Stakeholders' perception of organization: an attribution and fairness perspective	3
Knowledge ambidexterity in construction project-based organizations: predicaments of knowledge networking intention within outbound consultant-supplier interfaces	3
Linking empowering leadership to work-related well-being and project citizenship behavior in the construction context: a self-determination perspective	3
Balancing between stability and change in Agile teams	2
Assessment of the causes and effects of design deficiencies for large construction projects using social network analysis	2
Understanding variations of governmentality and governance structures at the project level in project-based organizations	2
Data analytics for project delivery: unlocking the potential of an emerging field	2
Knowledge storage and accessibility in an interorganizational project: empirical evidence from the Orange Line metro train	2
Managing projects as a mode of temporal ordering. Performative organising of time and temporality in projects	2
Do nothing, do minimum or do something? Why public project appraisals “always” recommend large projects	2
The interplay of team-level leader-member exchange and artificial intelligence on information systems development team performance: a mediated moderation perspective	2
Local community's engagement and enactment of social value from hydropower infrastructure	2
Environmental collaboration in construction projects: roles of CSR motivations, environmental commitment and team autonomy	2
Utilizing blockchain to enhance project management information systems: insights into project portfolio success, knowledge management and learning capabilities	2
Learning from interorganizational projects	2
Enhancing software effort estimation through reinforcement learning-based project management-oriented feature selection	2
Dealing with uncertainties in the design phase of road projects	2
How do adoption choices influence public private partnership outcomes? Lessons from Spain and Portugal transport infrastructure	2
Exploring pattern of complexity in mega construction projects	2
Crises and capabilities in project-based organizations: conceptual model and empirical evidence	2