OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Managing Projects in Business is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Praxis of knowledge-management and trust-based collaborative relationships in project delivery: mediating role of a project facilitator	75
Challenges of scaling agile in large enterprises and implications for project management	29
Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects	27
Impact of using project management tools and techniques on project and firm performance	27
How does leader's knowledge hiding kill innovative work behavior	26
Impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and the post-pandemic construction sector (Pakistan)	24
How good governance leads to better project performance through improved decision-making	24
Results from a ten-year longitudinal study of Norwegian construction industry performance	22
An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany	22
Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management	20
The impact of authentic leadership on project success: the mediating effect of organizational learning and innovation	20
Project governance: the impact of environmental changes on governance adaptations in large-scale projects	19
Collaborative integrated team project delivery – where to from here?	19
Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing	19
Unraveling structure and dynamics of project-based sponsor collaborative networks: evidence from urban rail transit PPP projects	18
A categorisation of dialectics in response to project uncertainty	17
System dynamics approach of knowledge transfer from projects to the project-based organization	16
Healthcare ecosystem integrated project management oriented to the patient journey: a systematic literature review	15
Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects	15
Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight	14
Revealing contribution mechanisms of project managers' technical competencies toward success in oil and gas projects	13
The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams	13
Achieving project performance goals in extreme resource-constrained environments: the role of bricolage in social enterprise projects	13
An exploratory investigation of performance criteria in managing and controlling new product development projects: Canadian SMEs' perspectives	12
Social value creation in major science research facilities: implications for construction project proposals and benefits management	12

Knowledge management enablers and barriers: exploring the moderating effect of communication barriers	12
Structuring concrete boundary objects for project-to-project learning: a state-of-practice review	12
Using simulations in project management education – impact on awareness and ability to navigate projects in a sustainable way	12
Understanding project cost contingency estimation: a holistic risk perspective	12
Control of project data and team satisfaction as results of PMO effort in new product development projects	12
Harnessing AI for value: examining the impact of AI capabilities and the mediating role of organizational agility on project value proposition	11
Integrating and transitioning the project front-end and project initiation phases in South African electrical engineering industrial projects	11
Conflicting or co-existing logics – doing action research within the framework of a project in a university	11
Configurations for high outsourcing performance in construction projects: an integrated perspective of transaction costs and capabilities	11
The effects of big data analytics capabilities on agile software development practices and project performance: a dynamic capabilities view perspective	10
Book review: Research handbook on the governance of projects	10
An evaluation of the adaptive performance of architects in project teams in Ghana using fuzzy approach	10
Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value	10
Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research	10
Defining integration capability dimensions and creating a corresponding self-assessment model for inter-organizational projects	9
Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios	9
Towards a comprehensive framework to support project studies in the context of university research centres: a design science research	9
Navigating similarities and differences in governance mechanisms: a systematic review across temporary and permanent interorganizational project networks	9
Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders	9
Publisher’s Note	9
Developing a sustainable career through discourse: a qualitative study on a group of Italian project managers	8
Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?	8
Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of projects: the moderating effect of emotional intelligence	8
The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects	8
Assessment of early warning signs in hospital projects' front-end phase	8
Traditional to sustainable risk management in the construction industry: a systematic literature review	8
How digital innovation affects the cooperative behavior?	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
Knowledge loss and retention in interorganizational projects: evidence from public transportation projects from Pakistan	7
Developing project-based supplier relations in a programmatic multi-project context: an exemplary case study from the construction industry	7
Principle-based decision-making: realising benefits in a scaled agile environment	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
Contribution of person-team fit parameters to teamwork effectiveness in construction project teams	6
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	6
External quality assurance of cost estimates in major public projects: empirical evidence on cost performance	6
Enhancing the quality of project management through action research	6
How do projects decouple from coercive pressures? A study of decoupling in construction projects	6
Knowledge cooperation networks structure and evolutionary characteristics of international high-speed railway projects	6
Action design research: integration of method support	6
Empowering urban sustainability: unveiling the crucial role of project managers in attaining Sustainable Development Goal 11	6
Let the people decide! Citizen engagement and enfranchisement in the front end of urban development projects	6
Shared mental models in multi-team systems: improving enterprise system implementation	6
Where projects and non-projects coexist in the core challenges for frontline managers	6
What Generation Z needs: the role of project-based organizations in creating career sustainability	5
Stakeholders' perception of organization: an attribution and fairness perspective	5
Understanding the interacting layers of multi-level governance in Quebec’s public infrastructure projects	5
Harnessing information processing theory: key organizational initiatives for digital transformation projects success	5

Impact of the quality of technical specifications of the tender documentation on the construction projects’ success	5
Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience	5
Analyzing the influence of coopetition on resilience in the open innovation network from the perspective of knowledge diffusion	5
Impact of the project manager's transformational leadership, influenced by mediation of self-leadership and moderation of empowerment, on project success	5
Local community's engagement and enactment of social value from hydropower infrastructure	4
Assessment of the causes and effects of design deficiencies for large construction projects using social network analysis	4
Crises and capabilities in project-based organizations: conceptual model and empirical evidence	4
The effect of opportunism on the success of international development (ID) projects in a context dominated by a collectivist culture	4
Unlocking project success: how proactive personality, transformational leadership and affective commitment drive outcomes in complex environments	4
Enhancing the impact of transformational leadership and team-building on project success: the moderating role of empowerment climate	4
Enhancing software effort estimation through reinforcement learning-based project management-oriented feature selection	4
Dealing with uncertainties in the design phase of road projects	4
Learning from interorganizational projects	4
How do adoption choices influence public private partnership outcomes? Lessons from Spain and Portugal transport infrastructure	4
Knowledge ambidexterity in construction project-based organizations: predicaments of knowledge networking intention within outbound consultant-supplier interfaces	4
Towards a comprehensive conceptual framework for multicultural virtual teams: a multilevel perspective exploring the relationship between multiculturalism and performance	4
Linking empowering leadership to work-related well-being and project citizenship behavior in the construction context: a self-determination perspective	4
Do nothing, do minimum or do something? Why public project appraisals “always” recommend large projects	4
Understanding stakeholders’ different perceptions of value realization by projects: a mental model’s theory approach	4
Heterogeneous relationship patterns and governance strategies of project organizational networks (PONs): a colored network motif approach	4
The mediation role of the PMO in the transfer of knowledge between projects – a case study of five PMOs	4
Reach for the sky: analysis of behavioral competencies linked to project success	4
Crisis management process for project-based organizations	4
The interplay of team-level leader-member exchange and artificial intelligence on information systems development team performance: a mediated moderation perspective	4