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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Praxis of knowledge-management and trust-based collaborative relationships in project delivery: mediating role of a project facilitator	54
Project-based group work for enhancing students learning in project management education: an action research	28
Impact of using project management tools and techniques on project and firm performance	23
Passionate projects: practitioner reflections on emotion management	22
Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects	20
How do projects decouple from coercive pressures? A study of decoupling in construction projects	20
Dealing with uncertainties in the design phase of road projects	17
Challenges of scaling agile in large enterprises and implications for project management	16
Local community's engagement and enactment of social value from hydropower infrastructure	16
IT-enabled management of project complexity – An Action Design Research project	16
Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research	15
An evaluation of the adaptive performance of architects in project teams in Ghana using fuzzy approach	15
Contribution of person-team fit parameters to teamwork effectiveness in construction project teams	14
Infrastructure and health: the salutogenic approach, interdisciplinarity and new challenges for planning and design	14
Integrating and transitioning the project front-end and project initiation phases in South African electrical engineering industrial projects	14
Use of leader–member exchange theory to promote the project governance of construction project contractors	14
Book review: Socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects: dealing with uncertainties	13
Do nothing, do minimum or do something? Why public project appraisals “always” recommend large projects	13
How does leader's knowledge hiding kill innovative work behavior	13
Local community engagement as a practice: an investigation of local community engagement issues and their impact on transport megaprojects' social value	13
Linking complexity factors and project management approaches to performance: an embedded single case study of IT-enabled change projects in Australia	12
Let the people decide! Citizen engagement and enfranchisement in the front end of urban development projects	12
Combined strategy of trust repair in construction project organizations: an exploratory study in Chinese management scenario	12
Enhancing the quality of project management through action research	11
Balancing between stability and change in Agile teams	11

Using action research in innovation project management: building legitimacy and organizational learning in an SME during a merger process	10
Resilience of operating models: exploring the potential of agile project management as enabler	10
Assessment of the causes and effects of design deficiencies for large construction projects using social network analysis	9
Learning from interorganizational projects	9
Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders	9
Defining integration capability dimensions and creating a corresponding self-assessment model for inter-organizational projects	9
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	9
Guest editorial: Rethinking infrastructure projects for the new normal	9
Despotic leadership and IT project efficiency: the role of resilience	8
Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management	8
Projectified collaboration between nonprofit organizations and public organizations	8
Book review: Research handbook on the governance of projects	8
Stemming the tide: linking AI technology with workers retention	8
Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios	8
Action design research: integration of method support	7
Institutionalisation of sustainability in Indian megaprojects: an organisational field-based approach	6
Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?	6
The impact of authentic leadership on project success: the mediating effect of organizational learning and innovation	6
Agile project portfolio management as a strategic enabler in the Brazilian marketplace: five case studies and one substantive theory	6
Shared mental models in multi-team systems: improving enterprise system implementation	6
Making sense of project governance and its role in strategy implementation: a governance-as-practice perspective	6
An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany	6
External quality assurance of cost estimates in major public projects: empirical evidence on cost performance	6
Impact of client vendor communication on client satisfaction in information system based projects	5
Institutional quality configuration for encouraging private capital participation in PPP projects: evidence from 36 belt and road countries	5
Where projects and non-projects coexist in the core challenges for frontline managers	5
Facing barriers to unlock large-scale agile benefits: exploring the mediating role of organizational readiness	5
Project governance: the impact of environmental changes on governance adaptations in large-scale projects	5
Impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and the post-pandemic construction sector (Pakistan)	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
Hero's journey as a framework to study a project manager	4
Project managers' ability to explore and exploit predictive and iterative best practices	4
Preparing project managers for the human aspects of project work: fostering sensemaking abilities	4
Project managing in post-conflict environments: an exploration of the resource profiles of Sri Lankan non-governmental organizations involved in development projects	4
Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing	4
Vertical and horizontal trust and team learning: the role of organizational climate	4
How good governance leads to better project performance through improved decision-making	4
Analyzing the influence of coopetition on resilience in the open innovation network from the perspective of knowledge diffusion	3
An investigation of key precursors of megaproject crises	3
How critical success factors combine to influence success? A configurational theory approach on multiple social projects	3
Project managers: old, grumpy and suspicious or just “once bitten, twice shy?”	3
Organizational values in support of leadership styles fostering organizational resilience: a process perspective	3
Design science research with focus groups – a pragmatic meta-model	3
The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects	3
The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams	3
Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects	3
A categorisation of dialectics in response to project uncertainty	3
Increasing stakeholder engagement in research projects through standardization activities	3
Developing a sustainable career through discourse: a qualitative study on a group of Italian project managers	3

Understanding volunteer commitment to a project: testing a conceptual model	3
The effect of megaproject external social responsibility on community acceptance: the mediating role of public trust	3
The impact of cross-organizational private relationships on cooperative behavior in construction projects: evidence from Chinese construction industry	3
Navigating the future of megaprojects sustainability: a comprehensive framework and research agendas	3
Book review: Les projets: Une histoire politique (XVIe-XXIe siècles)	3
Understanding variations of governmentality and governance structures at the project level in project-based organizations	3
The information-seeking behaviors of project managers in professional virtual communities	3
Crises and capabilities in project-based organizations: conceptual model and empirical evidence	3
What Generation Z needs: the role of project-based organizations in creating career sustainability	2
Agile project management as a stage for creativity: a conceptual framework of five creativity-conducive spaces	2
Knowledge storage and accessibility in an interorganizational project: empirical evidence from the Orange Line metro train	2
Using simulations in project management education – impact on awareness and ability to navigate projects in a sustainable way	2
Revealing contribution mechanisms of project managers' technical competencies toward success in oil and gas projects	2
Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight	2
Governance distance and the performance of cross-border private participation infrastructure projects	2
Healthcare ecosystem integrated project management oriented to the patient journey: a systematic literature review	2
Stakeholders' perception of organization: an attribution and fairness perspective	2
Organizational support as an effective risk mitigation approach	2
System dynamics approach of knowledge transfer from projects to the project-based organization	2
Harnessing information processing theory: key organizational initiatives for digital transformation projects success	2
How do adoption choices influence public private partnership outcomes? Lessons from Spain and Portugal transport infrastructure	2
Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of projects: the moderating effect of emotional intelligence	2
Data analytics for project delivery: unlocking the potential of an emerging field	2
Distributed team cognition and collaborative problem-solving in project management	2
Contractual and relational enforcement in the aftermath of contract violations: the role of contracts and trust	2