APM's Research Summary Series provide practitioner-friendly summaries drawn from published articles from the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM). The research summary series play a key role in helping to disseminate cutting-edge research for practitioners. These summaries will benefit:
Practices, projects and portfolios: Current research trends and new directions
This paper evaluates different approaches to researching project portfolio management (PPM), the activity that links strategy with hands-on project management.
Results of this study show that the level of global project team members’ CQ-motivation significantly moderates how role clarity mediates the relationship between communication norms and individual job performance and satisfaction.
Global virtual teams for value creation and project success: A case study
The case study has found that as workers become more accustomed to virtual team-working, many of the anticipated difficulties become increasingly unimportant for their performance.
Success conditions for international development capacity building projects
This article examines the research question: what are the conditions that enable international development capacity building project success?
This paper supports extant literature on the dynamic evolutionary nature of PMOs, adding to the literature through the analytical lens of routines, which enrich our conceptualisation of project management offices (PMOs) and portfolio management (PfM).
Championing and promoting innovation in UK megaprojects
This paper is about the role of innovation champions and the ways innovation is or was championed and promoted in five construction megaprojects in London: 2012 Olympics, Crossrail railway, the underground Bank Station Upgrade, Thames Tideway Tunnel and High Speed Two (HS2).
APM conducted a research consultation to establish the main challenges and opportunities faced by key stakeholder groups. One of the three main priority areas focused on disseminating cutting-edge research for practitioners.
It was appreciated that a large body of research already existed but often the formats, length and language wasn’t that accessible to non-academics. APM has responded by re-purposing selected articles in order to help meet these practitioner needs.
Summaries might be selected for a number of reasons: they support APM’s research themes or priorities, they are currently one of the most cited or downloaded papers featured in the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM), or APM has received suggestions from members or from the wider project management community to produce a practitioner paper based on a current IJPM paper or subject.
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Summaries are produced by experienced technical writers who have a proven track record of converting academic text for public audiences in conjunction with the original academic author(s) where possible.
Each summary paper includes the opportunity for the original authors to include a short paragraph around how the subject matter contained has moved on, or whether there is anything practitioners should be aware of since the original article was published, if relevant.