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Organising project‐based companies
Jerbrant, Anna - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 6 (2013) 2, pp. 365-378
Purpose – With the purpose of enhancing the understanding of multi‐project management, this paper is based on the findings of a doctoral thesis that focuses on the management and organisation of project‐based companies. Design/methodology/approach – The research presented here is based...
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Improving cross‐company project management performance with a collaborative project scorecard
Niebecker, Klaus; Eager, David; Kubitza, Klaus - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 1 (2008) 3, pp. 368-386
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the current problems and difficulties in automotive project management and explore solutions to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. To meet the industry demands for new project management methods, a strategy‐based scorecard concept was...
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Standing on the shoulders of strategic management giants to advance organizational project management
Drouin, Nathalie; Jugdev, Kam - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 7 (2013) 1, pp. 61-77
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine relevant issues within the strategic management domain related to concepts and terms used within the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities (DC) theory. The paper explains how these theories from strategic management can be translated for...
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The reality of adherence to best practices for information system initiatives
Marnewick, Carl - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10 (2017) 1, pp. 167-184
Purpose Standards are written by practitioners for practitioners. It is therefore logical that project managers should comply with project management standards. Benefits management is a domain within programme management. The focus of benefits management is to deliver benefits of initiatives...
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Co-creation as a strategy for program management
Näsholm, Malin H.; Blomquist, Tomas - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 8 (2015) 1, pp. 58-73
Purpose – Little attention has been paid to the initial development of programs. The purpose of this paper is to explore co-creation as an alternative strategic approach for program management. Co-creation of programs means that the projects within the program are created by the users and...
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Marketing by, for and of the project: project marketing by three types of organizations
Rodney Turner, John; Lecoeuvre, Laurence - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10 (2017) 4, pp. 841-855
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to place project marketing within the framework of organizational project management. There has been an ongoing discussion in the project marketing literature about whether project marketing is part of project management or project management is part of...
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Is it for donors or locals? The relationship between stakeholder interests and demonstrating results in international development
Julian, Rachel - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 9 (2016) 3, pp. 505-527
and agencies. The causes of the mismatch between actual and demonstrated results failure were studied through stakeholder … posed by differing interests and different perceptions in reporting stakeholder activities, outputs and outcomes, were … peacebuilding project in Sri Lanka, which the author has previously studied. A stakeholder role and perception analysis was used to …
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Stakeholder defined
McGrath, Stephen Keith; Whitty, Stephen Jonathan - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10 (2017) 4, pp. 721-748
stakeholder, thereby removing confusion surrounding the use of this term from the general and project management arenas. Design … stakeholder are in terms of an interest and activity. This avoids all extensions of meaning introduced by defining particular … stakeholders of a firm. These definitions are carried forward into a mapping of the stakeholder locus of interest on an activity …
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Editorial
Walker, Derek H.T. - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 1 (2008) 1, pp. 5-16
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the philosophy of the journal and present a summary of its content and how the various papers link to the journal's philosophy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a limited literature review to establish the journal's philosophy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014786230
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Collaborative academic/practitioner research in project management
Walker, Derek H.T.; Cicmil, Svetlana; Thomas, Janice; … - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 1 (2008) 1, pp. 17-32
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide of a review of the theory and models underlying project management (PM) research degrees that encourage reflective learning. Design/methodology/approach – Review of the literature and reflection on the practice of being actively involved in...
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