During the past decade, there has been an increasing tendency to draw attention to the particular challenges posed by complex projects. At the same time, complexity in and of projects has emerged as a theme for discussion and debate in response to growing concern about the dominance of various...

This editorial reports on the findings from a one-day theory symposium held in advance of the PMI Global Congress 2012 in Vancouver, Canada. Twelve researchers in the project management domain participated in an intensive discussion about developing a comprehensive set of theories to describe,...