Purpose – This paper aims to show how western project managers operating in Asia can employ a survey based on cultural dimensions and continua as a means to assist with managing a team of host national staff. Design/methodology/approach – A survey based on a model of national cultural...

Purpose – This paper seeks to develop a model for risk management of knowledge loss in a project‐based organization in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a multi‐stage research approach. In the first stage, existing practices are examined to develop a model for risk...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for assisting individuals in organisations to understand how to engage their senior stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – The main method for the research is a descriptive case study to test the theories described in the...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a risk identification method which is a synthesis of existing tools and techniques. Design/methodology/approach – Risks are viewed as a temporal hierarchy of major decisions or events at the highest level, projects at the middle level, and routine...

The management of all kinds of projects is dogged by bad information. The difficulties of getting good information are such that many project managers abandon all attempts to plan and monitor their projects, while still going through whatever motions their company requires. Looks at the causes...

This paper aims at introducing benchmarking to management practitioners. Emphases have been placed on the classification of benchmarking and the benchmarking process model. The former will help in identifying the sources of best practices as a result of assisting in promoting management...

Purpose – This paper explores the spatial and material context of a creative production project. Taking the music recording project as an empirical setting, it explores the creation of a pop song and reveals the highly situated character of its management and organization. Making a creative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which user liaison behavior and outcome control influence the process performance of information technology (IT) projects and how the IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability of user liaisons affect...

Purpose – There are not many answers to the question of how the development projects launched to improve business performance in SMEs have succeeded. This study focuses on business development success in SMEs. The main objective is to structure and model the success dimensions that contribute...

Many types of commercial professional services are commonly sold as projects. Therefore this article draws on the project marketing literature to elucidate the international marketing of professional service projects. After an initial literature review, the project marketing milieu concept’s a...