Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to contribute to operations management (OM) practice
contingency research by describing the complexity of projects. Complexity is recognised as …

Agility is a very topical issue today, however, it can be found most frequently in literature
related to software development. The agile software development methodology is based on …

Still, projects in the construction sector are delivered with time delays and cost overruns.
One of the reasons for poor performance was assigned to project complexity. A combination …

We review research at the intersection of corporate divestiture and stakeholder orientation to
synthesize implications for divestment project management. Divestitures are corporate …

The management of large engineering projects is often a combination of the focus on
planning and control, and the ambition to be flexible given the complexity and uncertainties …

We are having lunch with Eve, senior project manager at a well-known IT consultancy. Eve
describes herself as 'the kind of woman who likes to work', and goes on to tell us about her …

This paper describes the results of a qualitative study to develop a framework to help
organisations to embed useful project management improvement initiatives (PMIIs), which …

This paper describes the quantitative analysis phase of an exploratory study to identify
useful project management improvement initiatives and factors contributing to their …

This research establishes the relationship (s) that shared leadership has with two
performance metrics in Six Sigma healthcare teams: the perceived effectiveness of a team …

Surveys reveal that the majority of innovation projects do not achieve their goals and waste
resources. Notorious examples are the National Health Service's National Programme for IT …