OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Managing Projects in Business is 7. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Challenges of scaling agile in large enterprises and implications for project management	61
Impact of using project management tools and techniques on project and firm performance	32
Praxis of knowledge-management and trust-based collaborative relationships in project delivery: mediating role of a project facilitator	26
How does leader's knowledge hiding kill innovative work behavior	26
Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects	25
How good governance leads to better project performance through improved decision-making	21
Impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and the post-pandemic construction sector (Pakistan)	21
Project governance: the impact of environmental changes on governance adaptations in large-scale projects	21
Results from a ten-year longitudinal study of Norwegian construction industry performance	19
Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management	19
Improved reliability in planning large-scale infrastructure project delivery through Alliancing	18
The impact of authentic leadership on project success: the mediating effect of organizational learning and innovation	18
An institutional theory perspective on the role of project management associations for projectification of society: the case of Germany	18
The power of many: analyzing the impact of shared leadership on project teams	17
Healthcare ecosystem integrated project management oriented to the patient journey: a systematic literature review	17
A categorisation of dialectics in response to project uncertainty	15
Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects	15
Social value creation in major science research facilities: implications for construction project proposals and benefits management	13
Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight	13
System dynamics approach of knowledge transfer from projects to the project-based organization	13
Using simulations in project management education – impact on awareness and ability to navigate projects in a sustainable way	12
Structuring concrete boundary objects for project-to-project learning: a state-of-practice review	11
Understanding project cost contingency estimation: a holistic risk perspective	11
An exploratory investigation of performance criteria in managing and controlling new product development projects: Canadian SMEs' perspectives	11
Achieving project performance goals in extreme resource-constrained environments: the role of bricolage in social enterprise projects	11

Managing stakeholder attributes for risk mitigation: evidence from construction project contractors	11
Control of project data and team satisfaction as results of PMO effort in new product development projects	11
Revealing contribution mechanisms of project managers' technical competencies toward success in oil and gas projects	11
Knowledge management enablers and barriers: exploring the moderating effect of communication barriers	10
Configurations for high outsourcing performance in construction projects: an integrated perspective of transaction costs and capabilities	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
Exploring the resource manager role in a project-based organization	10
Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research	9
Integrating and transitioning the project front-end and project initiation phases in South African electrical engineering industrial projects	8
Towards a comprehensive framework to support project studies in the context of university research centres: a design science research	8
Prioritizing risks with composition of probabilistic preferences and weighting of FMEA criteria for fast decision-making in complex scenarios	8
Impact of client vendor communication on client satisfaction in information system based projects	8
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
An evaluation of the adaptive performance of architects in project teams in Ghana using fuzzy approach	8
Project stakeholder engagement through gamification: what do we know and where do we go from here?	8
Analysis of front end dynamic in the value co-creation with multiple stakeholders	8
Governance distance and the performance of cross-border private participation infrastructure projects	7
Traditional to sustainable risk management in the construction industry: a systematic literature review	7
A clash of clans: an empirical study of conflicting institutional logics and their impact on megaproject collaboration	7
Influence of the project managers' expertise and experience in the success of projects: the moderating effect of emotional intelligence	7
Developing a sustainable career through discourse: a qualitative study on a group of Italian project managers	7
Assessment of early warning signs in hospital projects' front-end phase	7
Principle-based decision-making: realising benefits in a scaled agile environment	7
Defining integration capability dimensions and creating a corresponding self-assessment model for inter-organizational projects	7
The effects of internal stickiness on the success of projects	7
Developing project-based supplier relations in a programmatic multi-project context: an exemplary case study from the construction industry	7
Knowledge loss and retention in interorganizational projects: evidence from public transportation projects from Pakistan	7