Purpose: The aim of this article is to give an overview of the development and current state of projectification research. The inquiry was driven by a threefold research question: How has projectification been understood and defined over time, what has the trajectory of the development been and...

Purpose: The author aims to explore and provide new insights on the resource manager role in a matrix-like project-based organization. What is the content of this role and the challenges as perceived by role incumbents? Design/methodology/approach: This a case study of a large project...

Purpose: This study aims to develop a risk prioritization process using failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) in association with composition of probabilistic preferences (CPP) and weighting the risk analysis criteria. It seeks to develop decision-making considering the fast response...

Purpose: This study examines the mechanisms and conditions that influence how transformational leadership affects project success through the lens of social information processing theory. Design/methodology/approach: A dual-stage moderated mediation model was proposed wherein the effect of...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore how new product development (NPD)-based project management offices (PMOs) work, their drivers to deliver performance and their project success impact. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a survey of 35 Brazilian and multi-national companies that...

Purpose: This article describes advances in the study of knowledge transfer (KT) in project-based organizations (PBOs). Project management offices (PMOs) have both a moderation role and a mediation role to play in KT between projects. In order to improve KT between projects, this paper explores...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the latent interrelationships of causes and effects of design deficiencies (DDs) and to identify the most crucial ones by considering the interactions among them. Design/methodology/approach: First, through a comprehensive literature review,...

Purpose: The paper responds to calls in recent research for a model that shows how the business case should be used throughout the project's lifetime to achieve sound governance and thereby project success. The aim of the paper is to advance theory about the effective use of the business case....

Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to describe and explain how organisations use internal projects to implement organisation-level strategy objectives. Design/methodology/approach: Theory development with an emphasis on explaining key constructs and their mutual relationships. The...

Purpose: Project studies analyse either managing practices or the temporal nature of project management, which leaves open a research gap: the temporality of managing practice. The paper demonstrates that performativity theory with a temporal perspective helps us to understand how managing a...