OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Managing Projects in Business is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
How does leader's knowledge hiding kill innovative work behavior	68
Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects	34
Praxis of knowledge-management and trust-based collaborative relationships in project delivery: mediating role of a project facilitator	26
Challenges of scaling agile in large enterprises and implications for project management	26
Impact of using project management tools and techniques on project and firm performance	26
How good governance leads to better project performance through improved decision-making	23
Results from a ten-year longitudinal study of Norwegian construction industry performance	22
Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing	21
An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany	21
Impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and the post-pandemic construction sector (Pakistan)	20
Project governance: the impact of environmental changes on governance adaptations in large-scale projects	20
Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management	19
The impact of authentic leadership on project success: the mediating effect of organizational learning and innovation	19
Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight	18
Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects	18
Healthcare ecosystem integrated project management oriented to the patient journey: a systematic literature review	18
A categorisation of dialectics in response to project uncertainty	16
The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams	15
System dynamics approach of knowledge transfer from projects to the project-based organization	14
Using simulations in project management education – impact on awareness and ability to navigate projects in a sustainable way	13
Social value creation in major science research facilities: implications for construction project proposals and benefits management	13
Revealing contribution mechanisms of project managers' technical competencies toward success in oil and gas projects	13
Achieving project performance goals in extreme resource-constrained environments: the role of bricolage in social enterprise projects	12
Knowledge management enablers and barriers: exploring the moderating effect of communication barriers	11
An exploratory investigation of performance criteria in managing and controlling new product development projects: Canadian SMEs' perspectives	11

Structuring concrete boundary objects for project-to-project learning: a state-of-practice review	11
Control of project data and team satisfaction as results of PMO effort in new product development projects	11
Understanding project cost contingency estimation: a holistic risk perspective	11
Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value	10
Exploring the resource manager role in a project-based organization	10
An evaluation of the adaptive performance of architects in project teams in Ghana using fuzzy approach	10
Book review: Research handbook on the governance of projects	10
Conflicting or co-existing logics – doing action research within the framework of a project in a university	10
The effects of big data analytics capabilities on agile software development practices and project performance: a dynamic capabilities view perspective	10
Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research	10
Configurations for high outsourcing performance in construction projects: an integrated perspective of transaction costs and capabilities	10
Integrating and transitioning the project front-end and project initiation phases in South African electrical engineering industrial projects	10
Towards a comprehensive framework to support project studies in the context of university research centres: a design science research	9
Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios	9
Publisher’s Note	8
The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects	8
Defining integration capability dimensions and creating a corresponding self-assessment model for inter-organizational projects	8
Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders	8
Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of projects: the moderating effect of emotional intelligence	8
Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?	8
Developing a sustainable career through discourse: a qualitative study on a group of Italian project managers	8
Traditional to sustainable risk management in the construction industry: a systematic literature review	8
Developing project-based supplier relations in a programmatic multi-project context: an exemplary case study from the construction industry	7
Multi-dimensional organizational motivations: the catalyst for interorganizational knowledge sharing in megaprojects	7
Internal projects as strategic tools: an organisation-level perspective and a research agenda	7
Empowering urban sustainability: unveiling the crucial role of project managers in attaining Sustainable Development Goal 11	7
Principle-based decision-making: realising benefits in a scaled agile environment	7
Ability or morality? Exploring the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance of urban transport infrastructure projects	7
A clash of clans: an empirical study of conflicting institutional logics and their impact on megaproject collaboration	7
The nexus of project management approaches in sustainable development: innovative behaviors as a mechanism in the Polish financial industry	7
Assessment of early warning signs in hospital projects' front-end phase	7
Enhancing the quality of project management through action research	6
How digital innovation affects the cooperative behavior?	6
Contribution of person-team fit parameters to teamwork effectiveness in construction project teams	6
Let the people decide! Citizen engagement and enfranchisement in the front end of urban development projects	6
How do projects decouple from coercive pressures? A study of decoupling in construction projects	6
Knowledge loss and retention in interorganizational projects: evidence from public transportation projects from Pakistan	6
Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience	5
Knowledge cooperation networks structure and evolutionary characteristics of international high-speed railway projects	5
Shared mental models in multi-team systems: improving enterprise system implementation	5
Action design research: integration of method support	5
External quality assurance of cost estimates in major public projects: empirical evidence on cost performance	5
Where projects and non-projects coexist in the core challenges for frontline managers	5
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	5
Project managing in post-conflict environments: an exploration of the resource profiles of Sri Lankan non-governmental organizations involved in development projects	5
What Generation Z needs: the role of project-based organizations in creating career sustainability	4
Impact of the project manager's transformational leadership, influenced by mediation of self-leadership and moderation of empowerment, on project success	4
Knowledge ambidexterity in construction project-based organizations: predicaments of knowledge networking intention within outbound consultant-supplier interfaces	4
Impact of the quality of technical specifications of the tender documentation on the construction projects’ success	4
Understanding the interacting layers of multi-level governance in Quebec’s public infrastructure projects	4

Harnessing information processing theory: key organizational initiatives for digital transformation projects success	4
Linking empowering leadership to work-related well-being and project citizenship behavior in the construction context: a self-determination perspective	4
Reach for the sky: analysis of behavioral competencies linked to project success	4
Analyzing the influence of coopetition on resilience in the open innovation network from the perspective of knowledge diffusion	4
Crisis management process for project-based organizations	4
Stakeholders' perception of organization: an attribution and fairness perspective	4
Towards a comprehensive conceptual framework for multicultural virtual teams: a multilevel perspective exploring the relationship between multiculturalism and performance	4
Local community's engagement and enactment of social value from hydropower infrastructure	3
The mediation role of the PMO in the transfer of knowledge between projects – a case study of five PMOs	3
Enhancing software effort estimation through reinforcement learning-based project management-oriented feature selection	3
Understanding variations of governmentality and governance structures at the project level in project-based organizations	3
Environmental collaboration in construction projects: roles of CSR motivations, environmental commitment and team autonomy	3
Exploring pattern of complexity in mega construction projects	3
Do nothing, do minimum or do something? Why public project appraisals “always” recommend large projects	3
The interplay of team-level leader-member exchange and artificial intelligence on information systems development team performance: a mediated moderation perspective	3
The effect of opportunism on the success of international development (ID) projects in a context dominated by a collectivist culture	3
Learning from interorganizational projects	3
Crises and capabilities in project-based organizations: conceptual model and empirical evidence	3
How do adoption choices influence public private partnership outcomes? Lessons from Spain and Portugal transport infrastructure	3
Knowledge storage and accessibility in an interorganizational project: empirical evidence from the Orange Line metro train	3
Assessment of the causes and effects of design deficiencies for large construction projects using social network analysis	3
Dealing with uncertainties in the design phase of road projects	3
Enhancing the impact of transformational leadership and team-building on project success: the moderating role of empowerment climate	3
Digital roots, green fruits: can sustainable strategies blossom with digital transformation in project management organizations?	3
Data analytics for project delivery: unlocking the potential of an emerging field	3
Utilizing blockchain to enhance project management information systems: insights into project portfolio success, knowledge management and learning capabilities	3