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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Performance measurement methods in megaprojects: An analytical review126
The role of mindfulness in the management of projects: Potential opportunities in research and practice79
Forty years of organizational behaviour research in project management58
Agency relationships of project-based firms56
Benefits realisation in an agile environment56
Too little or too much transparency? Influencing accountability in project management through the practices of using digital technologies56
Unveiling complex relational behavior in megaprojects: A qualitative-quantitative network approach48
Building megaproject resilience with stakeholders: The roles of citizenship behavior and critical transition mechanisms48
Editorial Board46
Asking the right questions: The role of reflection for learning in and between projects46
The more the better? The role of stakeholder information processing in complex urban innovation projects for green transformation45
So many projects, so little result: The self-perpetuating cycle of inter-institutional projects44
Projecting for sustainability transitions: Contrasting two types of project-oriented agency43
Projecting for sustainability transitions41
Enhancing sensing capabilities in project-based organizations: the role of knowledge transfer between commercial and operational teams41
Prior and governed stakeholder relationships: The key to resilience of inter-organizational projects41
Pursuing openness in the digital age: Insights from client–contractor knowledge collaboration at the project front end40
Examining the transition to agile practices with information technology projects: Agile teams and their experience of accountability39
Project portfolio formation as an organizational routine: Patterns of actions in implementing innovation strategy38
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The co-creation of value by public and private actors in the front end of urban development projects37
A process–oriented framework to measure development performance and success of megaprojects36
Aligning stakeholders perceptions of project performance: The contribution of Business Realisation Management36
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
How to improve the effects of knowledge governance on individual learning across projects: From the perspective of relational capital33
Does entrepreneurial project monitoring and controlling process matter in social enterprises? Evidence from a developing African country33
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Enabling projects for strategic implementation: Role of designated project manager in CEO-TMT interface during project front-end investment decisions32
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Tied islands: The role of organizational members in knowledge transfer across strategic projects31
The human factor in agility: Exploring employee dedication in agile project organizations31
Call for papers: Digitalisation of and by projects: A sociotechnical perspective on the consequences for project work31
Measuring project team performance: A review and conceptualization31
The first impression counts: The essentials of writing a convincing introduction29
Considering alternatives to megaprojects for a sustainable future with degrowth principles28
Value exchanges within stakeholder networks throughout a megaproject's lifecycle28
Client management in the project domain: towards conceptual integration using cross-disciplinary research28
Avoiding the inflection point: Project management theory and research after 40 years28
Beyond the paradox: Understanding how project leader humility and narcissism affect project outcomes28
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Misfiring and still succeeding: Seeking success in megaprojects amidst changing regulatory environments27
Cooperating in interorganizational innovation projects: Toward a better understanding of coupling with the permanent ecosystem27
Modeling strategic alignment in project networks26
When project outcomes matter: Organizational integration in managing long-term target benefits25
Multi-project management in inter-organizational contexts25
Studying Projects Processually25
The dynamics of systems integration: Balancing stability and change on London's Crossrail project24
Power in news media: Framing strategies and effects in infrastructure projects24
Change in a project-based organization: The mutual shaping of institutional logics and change programs23
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 event23
Closing capability gaps for procuring infrastructure public-private partnerships: A case study in China23
Introduction–A special section in honor of Peter Morris23
Behavioral barriers to sustainable action in project management and how to overcome them22
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Call for Papers: Towards Stronger Theorising of Temporary Organising21
The performance effects of optimistic and pessimistic project status reporting behavior21
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Broadening project studies to address sustainability transitions: Conceptual suggestions and crossovers with socio-technical transitions research21
Building legitimacy in flexible work projects: A study on institutional, organizational, and individual narratives20
A project-as-practice perspective on helping behavior and reciprocity in an inter-organizational project20
Acquisitions as programs: The role of sensemaking and sensegiving20
The project is dead. Long live the project20
How entrepreneurial orientation influences project portfolio success: The roles of ideation portfolio management and firm size19
What Peter Morris's books meant to me: An Amarcord19
Project team resilience: The effect of group potency and interpersonal trust19
Integration of an exploration program with its parent organization: A lifecycle perspective19
Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective19
Breaking free from the invisible cage: Leveraging institutional logics to understand and facilitate organizational change projects19
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
Enriching the concept of authentic leadership in project-based organisations through the lens of life-stories and self-identities18
Success Management – From theory to practice18
Editorial Board18
Risk factor prioritization in infrastructure handover to operations17
Impacts of knowledge expectations on recipients’ continuous cross-project learning intention17
Antecedents to bounce forward: A case study tracing the resilience of inter-organisational projects in the face of disruptions17
Projects as drivers of sustainability: How the adoption of the reuse principle affects the front-end of a construction project17
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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
Complements or substitutes? Recipes of contract design, contract enforcement, and trust for enhanced project performance16
Formation of inter-project ties from the sender–recipient perspective: Roles of task interdependence and functional interdependence15
The ‘invisible hand’ of institutional logics on professionalizing project management amid increasing projectification15
Field-configuring projects: How projects shape the public reflection of electric mobility in Germany15
Understanding project management performance using a comparative overrun measure15
Shaping interorganizational strategic projects through power relations and strategic practices15
Projects as interventions15
Surfacing and responding paradoxes in megascale projects15
Editorial Board14
An essay on deprojectification: Drivers and consequences14
Beneficiary participation is an imperative, not an option, but does it really work in international development projects?14
Cultivating crisis research in project studies: Insights from management and organisation studies by Christine Pearson14
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Not all project ambiguity is equal: A typology of project ambiguity and implications for its management14
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Developing new knowledge: A virtual collection of project management review articles14
Political ecology perspective for a new way of understanding stakeholders and value in infrastructure projects14
The Relevance of Responsible Research for Project Scholars: Project Research as a Service to Society13
Balancing on a tightrope: Coping with concurrent institutional logics in project business12
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How do institutional pressures moderate the impacts of relational governance on the performance of international projects? An empirical assessment12
International technology transfer through projects: A social construction of technology perspective12
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 succ12
Turning narratives into collective action through projects12
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Enhancing project managers’ strategy commitment by leader-leader exchange: The role of psychological empowerment and organizational identification12
Enacting project resilience: Insights from Uruguayan air force flight 571′s crash in the Andes11
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Coming to terms with project success: Current perspectives and future challenges11
Corrigendum to “Owner challenges on major projects: The case of UK government” [Int. J. Proj. Manag. 38 (2020) 177–187]10
How organisational and team climates foster design thinking for project success10
What does it take to kill a megaproject? The reverse escalation of commitment10
Managing large-scale projects: Unpacking the role of project memory10
Strategic responses to external stakeholder influences10
Will the past guide us? Towards more reflective research on projects10
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Is this How Big Things Get Done?10
Exploring the critical nexus between authoritarian leadership, project team member's silence and multi-dimensional success in a state-owned mega construction project10
Design science research and the co-creation of project management knowledge10
Performance measurement in new product development projects: findings from successful small and medium enterprises9
Public project success? Measuring the nuances of success through ex post evaluation9
The local government project: A matchmaker or a troublemaker?9
Construction project management fiction: Individual values9
Design flexibility in managing infrastructure projects: Contributing factors and research avenues9
Organisation design in megaprojects: A systematic literature review and research agenda9
Cracking the megaproject puzzle: A stakeholder perspective?9
HOLEY MOLEY, the poppycock syndrome, and academic drift9
Examining owners’ and contractors’ motivations to participate in collaborative risk management of mega infrastructure projects9
Transcending the silos through project management office: Knowledge transactions, brokerage roles, and enabling factors8
Navigating multiple contexts to integrate system transformation programs8
Multi-level perspective framework in macro project studies: Towards a complex project organizing approach to sustainability transitions8
Owners managing the commercial interface on complex projects: A pluralistic theoretical perspective8
Using nudges to realize project performance management8
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Facilitating and improving learning in projects: Evidence from a lean approach8
The interplay of formal integrative mechanisms and relational norms in project collaboration8
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Organizing coopetitive tensions: Collaborative consumption in project ecologies8
Stakeholder engagement: Theoretical and methodological directions for project scholarship7
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There’s people in there! On Daniel Kahneman’s enduring impact7
Grandstanding? The elusive process of shaping megaproject symbolism7
IJPM invites special paper collections proposals 20267
Fair project governance: An organisational justice approach to project governance7
Does project management matter? The relationship between project management effort, complexity, and profitability7
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
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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
The stress-inducing potential of inclusive leadership: Does resilience help?6
Boundary work in a project-based organization: Flow across interdependent boundaries in interorganizational programs6
Dynamics of couplings and their implications in inter-organizational multi-actor research and innovation projects6
Demolishers or ‘material experts’? Project actors negotiating changing roles in sustainable projects6
Kahneman's legacy in project management: Improving decision-making and performance6
Why clear managerial recommendations matter in major projects research: Searching for relevance in practice6
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
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