Balanced leadership has emerged as a contemporary theory of the dynamics in the continuous transfer of leadership authority between project managers and team members in projects. This article addresses the cognitive mechanisms for the coordination of this transfer. Four case studies in three...

This paper captures a better understanding of the career development of people leading megaprojects through the use of biographical research method. The characteristics of megaprojects cause serious and diverse challenges for their leaders, but programs where they are trained to overcome these...

The project management literature is very reticent about the emotions project management professionals experience when making decisions on projects. As part of research into the link between project governance, decision making and project performance, twelve project management professionals were...

The literature on project governance suggests an association between good governance and project success. However, the mechanism is not known. It is suggested governance and governmentality influence six psychological constructs, and through them, decision making, and project performance. The...

In this article we consider stakeholder experience through the stakeholder's contact journey with a project. Drawing on the customer experience literature we consider the stakeholders experience by using customer experience as a metaphor. Stakeholder experience will involve cognitive, emotional,...