The non-repetitive nature of projects, globalization, the growing number of distributed project teams, and the substantial number of high-tech projects in which the human brain is the most important resource are just few of the forces making human resource management in projects a critical...

Greek Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) are an important factor for the socio-economic development of the country. This fact is mirroring in the participation of SMEs in the Greek GDP, but also in terms of employment. The extended relevant literature provides also the significant...

The professional field of project management is widening, across the world. Professional organizations are growing, and so is the need for project management education. Knowledge gain through a blend of theory and practice is of crucial importance in today’s challenging project environment....

The importance of project management as a special organisational form for temporary endeavours and in particular for international collaborations increases steadily. Cooperation in international projects can be improved by the use of existing PM Standards. It is therefore important to be...

After 1990’s and the European integration, Romania faced major changes in the structure and finance of education. There are many decisions regarding the education reform, the decentralization of the public schools, and the curriculum. The education needs to evolve from an abstracted way to a...

Applying specific techniques and tools of project management has become an important issue of concern in the context of New Public Management and a practice for the public administration reform and integration, in an expanded European context and particularly in the case of Romania, where...

Projects financed by the European Union generate effects on organizations that implement them, on stakeholders and on the regions in which they are implemented. Through these projects the development of regions and the achievement of the European objectives, is wanted. These projects have...

A project is known as a sequence of connected activities, conducted in an organized manner, undertaken in a defined period of time and designed to generate a well-defined result. Considering the influences imposed by the external environment, often characterized by frequent changes that may have...

This paper attempts to bring out the lessons learned from implementation of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP), a World Bank financed project. While some of the problems and many solutions may be case specific, the lessons learnt would be of use for other similar interventions especially...

Management control is a very difficult task when applied to innovation. For some researchers, it's even an impossible mission. Despite this, our paper presents a theoretical framework issued from a literature review and based on Simons research (1995). This framework is used to understand how...