This research looks at the relationship between project management effort, complexity, and profitability.
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APM Research Summary Series
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:
- Learned practitioners who are keen to better understand cutting-edge research who are often time poor, they may sometimes struggle with the academic language contained in journal papers and may also lack access to academic journals.
- Students who may struggle with academic papers in the first instance might use the papers as a ‘stepping stone’ to better understanding the full papers.
This empirical study focusses on the ways that stakeholders of public infrastructure projects pursue influence on projects through their expectations of project value.
While there is much evidence that project-based work can be an effective and productive way of achieving economic outputs at firm level, there has remained a lack of knowledge about the effects on an overall economy of firms transitioning from non-project to project work (‘projectification’).
More research series articles
Governance as practice for major public infrastructure projects
The relationship between project governance and project success
Errors lies and misunderstandings systematic review on behavioural decision making in projects
“The aura of capability”: Gender bias in selection for a project manager job
Do classics exist in megaproject management?
What practitioners consider to be the skills and behaviours of an effective people project manager
Projectification in western economies
Project studies: What it is, where it is going?
The unsettling of ‘settled science’
Three domains of project organising
Managing change in the delivery of complex projects: Configuration management, asset information and ‘big data’
Project portfolio management in practice and in context
Occupational stress and job demand, control and support factors among construction project consultants
Practices, projects and portfolios: Current research trends and new directions
Success conditions for international development capacity building projects
The project benefits of Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Does agile work? - A quantitative analysis of agile project success
Differences in decision-making criteria towards the return on marketing investment: a project business perspective
Institutional development, divergence and change in the discipline of project management
Explicating the dynamics of project capabilities
Benefits management: Lost or found in translation
Understanding the professional project manager: Cosmopolitans, locals and identity work
Corruption in public projects and mega projects: There is an elephant in the room!
Agile portfolio management: An empirical perspective on the practice in use
Branding and governmentality for infrastructure megaprojects: The role of social media
Why we created the APM Research Summary Series
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.
How are the summaries selected and what is the importance of feedback?
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.
We would very much like to hear from you around your thoughts on any summary paper(s) you may read – how did you find it? Was it useful? How did you use the paper? What papers or areas would you like to see in the future? Your feedback and insight is important to us as we would like to pass this onto the original author(s).
Please contact us with your views and suggestions.
How are the summaries produced?
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.